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ARTIKEL: Sejarah Orde Baru dan Indonesia – Max Lane

December 3, 2011 1 comment

Pertama sekali saya belajar sejarah Indonesia ialah pada tahun 1967 dan 1968 di Sekolah Menengah Atas di Sydney, Australia, kemudian di Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies, University of Sydney tahun 1969-72. Pada saat itu sejarah Indonesia Merdeka baru berlangsung 22 tahun. Daripada 22 tahun itu, 5 tahun adalah sejarah revolusi (fisik), kemudian ada periode selama 16 tahun yang berakhir pada tahun 1965, dan kemudian 2 tahun Orde Baru. Pada saat itu, sejarah Indonesia Merdeka masih pendek. Sejarah pra-Indonesia – dari sejak Kartini sampai 1945 – sebenarnya juga bukan periode yang berjangka panjang.

Buat dosen-dosen saya zaman itu, menyusun kurikulum sejarah tak terlalu pusing dengan hanya adanya 22 tahun tsb. Di Indonesia sendiri, tentu saja, Indonesia Merdeka belum ada “sejarah” sama sekali. Periode 1945-67 masih sangat kini buat kaum intelektual, aktivis maupun rakyat.

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NOVEMBER, 2011: Where Max is Speaking.

October 28, 2011 Leave a comment

This schedule will be updated regularly and can be accessed by clicking “Where Max is Speaking” just under the banner of this blog, on the far right.

November, 2011

November 2, UniversitasParamedina: ” “Economic Crisis in Europe and United States; A respond from Globalist Perspective in IR”, Graduate School of Diplomacy. Consortium on Indonesian Foreign Policy.

November 8, Singapore: Singapore as Hub for A Democratic Nusantara

November 11: “”Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s 30 year long writer’s block:  the present absence of Indonesia’s revolutionary vernacular?” : – Conference: GREAT ASIAN WRITERS AND VERNACULAR LITERATURES IN POST-COLONIAL  PERSEPECTIVE, Departrment of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore.

November 14: “Asia Africa: two blocks or three blocks: the relevance of Sukarno;s OLDEFOS versis NEFOS today.” , Center for Global Civil Society Studies (PACIVIS) , University of Indonesia. Conference: BANDUNG SPIRIT CONFERENCE.

November 21-25 Lectures at Gajah Mada University on Indonesian political history. (internal)

November 26 (TBC): Launching of Indonesian edition of CATASTROPHE IN INDONESIA by Max Lane. http://www.seagullindia.com/books/detailviewnew.asp?prodid=3625

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Reflections and “poems” on Indonesia and on politics on a Sunday in Melbourne

August 14, 2011 Leave a comment

I

Writer’s block
Its stopped the clock
Is it a matter of will?
Or a matter first of paying every bill?

II

Blank sheet
Erased of earlier etches
broken nib, blunt pencil, unconnected keyboard
Bugs in the software

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Poem: Jakarta worker

July 2, 2011 1 comment

blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes
four hours commute through chafing wind by motor bike each day?
12 hours shift?
sleeplessness from heat and crowded quarters, crying child, weary wife?
counting bills and income again and again and again?
blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes, blood shot eyes

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Sajak: pemandangan perjalanan (pergi jauh?)

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
Tembusi korden debu polusi, simfoni klakson dan bising campur azan
memandang seribu dua ribu toko dan kios marhaen
sepeda mebel kursi roda plastik-plastikan soto dan foto presiden-presiden
Lewatkan entah rombongan atau khalayak nuju entah pula kemana sesak-sesak di metro-mini
Pengamen berumur 12 tahun main gitar-gitaran di lampu merah
Jendela membingkai pemandangan semua
sampai juga negeri lain di satu negeri: Mall
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Poem: Jakarta Child Asleep

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
breathing asleep ,sandwiched head on back of dad in front
cars truck and buses shiting their dirty breath
young eyelids closed protecting sight from the chafing whizzing wind
mum’s arms circle child and husband heading home one among the swarm
one hit from the monsters that rule the road, child will wake but grazed or broken by asphalt
not enough squeazed weary at work, the journey home no less a risk.
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Sajak: Anak Jakarta Tertidur

July 2, 2011 Leave a comment
nyenyak terapit kejepit dua orang tua nuju pulang
sunyi, bernafaskan asap diberakkan bis, truk dan mobil
kelopaknya mata amat muda tutup berlindung dari angin kencang
semoga nggak kesenggul macet-macet, motor bisa jadi jatuh dari labil
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KOLOM: SUKARNO: Pembelah atau pemersatu – oleh Max Lane

June 25, 2011 Leave a comment
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Recent publications: 2007 – January, 2011 (Updated)

February 22, 2011 Leave a comment

Publications 2008- (January) 2011

SOLE AUTHORED BOOKS

2010
Catastrophe in Indonesia, Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2010 (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=10464148)


2009
Shri Wedastera Suyasa, Dalam Politik-Politik Orang Bali, 1962-72, Mahendradatta University Press, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 2009
2008
UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto, VERSO Books, 2008. (http://www.versobooks.com/books/306-unfinished-nation)
2007
Bangsa Yang Belum Selesai: Indonesia sebelum dan sesudah Suharto, Reform Institute, Jakarta, 2007. To be reprinted 2010 by Djaman Baru Publishers, Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

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2010 in review

January 3, 2011 1 comment

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 86 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 115 posts. There were 44 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was April 16th with 178 views. The most popular post that day was Berusaha ingat.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, WordPress Dashboard, blogs.usyd.edu.au, mail.yahoo.com, and search.conduit.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for max lane, this earth of mankind, indonesian literature, sajak rindu, and poem on colours.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Berusaha ingat April 2010
1 comment

2

BANNED IN JAKARTA: New York Times Review of THIS EARTH OF MANKIND February 2010
1 comment

3

About Max – and email contact November 2009

4

INDONESIA: PHOTOS/REPORTS: FOR INDONESIA January 28 protest actions January 2010

5

THIS EARTH OF MANKIND – readers comments from Amazon.com October 2009

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