max lane

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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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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:

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

Crunchy numbers

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.

Berusaha ingat April 2010
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BANNED IN JAKARTA: New York Times Review of THIS EARTH OF MANKIND February 2010
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About Max – and email contact November 2009

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

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

SUMPAH RAKYAT INDONESIA BERSATU

Kami rakyat Indonesia, mengaku:
bertumpah darah yang satu, tanah air Indonesia.,
berbangsa yang satu, bangsa Indonesia.
menjunjung bahasa persatuan, bahasa Indonesia.

Kami rakyat Indonesia bersumpah:
Bertanah satu tanah air tanpa penindasan
Berbangsa satu bangsa cinta keadilan
Berbahasa satu bahasa tanpa kebohongan

See on this blog:

http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/10/29/on-joesoef-isak-2/

http://maxlaneonline.com/on-indonesian-politics/july-2008-new-book-launched-honouring-joesoef-isak/

http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/10/30/on-joesoef-isak/ 

 http://maxlaneonline.com/2010/05/07/poem-the-dried-eel-of-indonesia/

ALSO

http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/maxlaneintlasia/2006/09/with_joesoef_isak_publisher_an.html

Review of UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto in MONTHLY REVIEW ZINE.

When the future is to be the present repeated forever
Walled will be humanity, dammed, from each other severed
Palestine’s wall is that future bleak
Preventing the majority from their future to seek.

Walls arise like tumours inside every nation
Moats to drown humans fleeing desperation
Laws that proclaim upon those outside a siege
For the calm and comfort of enclaves of privilege.

Ten feet high walls hide their mansions
Each year their territory sees expansion
Gardens to rest in, rooms expansive, outside sweat and aches
Corrigated cardboard, shit, open space the masses does forsake

Wretchedness is a crime in the eyes of the lords
Walls and towers and steel bars for millions now a “home” affords
Where mansion, yacht, and green yards most abound
Billions too for weapons, there the most imprisoned will be found.

One planet, two worlds, parasite on host
Sucking life from humanity till just a ghost
Each nation two peoples suffering the curse of babble
Words of justice for one, for the other a cacophony of the rabble

But a wall is a blindness blocking sight of life
Build too many, may as well to the brain take a knife
Outside life teems, a jolt and there surges forth a tsunami
People, making things, loving life, hating walls, march as an army

Torquise so pure the sea sooths the soul calm
Green so deep the paddy to the spirit is like a balm
Blue so clear the sky fills the heart with the warmest psalm
Black stained with red the immiseration rips all asunder
White flushed with red the poetry of rebellion recreates the wonder.

SAJAK BULE BERKERINGAT

Keringat
Kulit putih ternyata sangat berair
Panas gila
70% tubuh terdiri dari air
Cari ember
Sebentar lagi aku ini seluruh mencair

Kipas
Juru selamat angin plus keringat jadi dingin
Mandi
Diseram air segar sejuk itu yang aku ingin
Es
Kopyor air kelapa tanpa gula – kepingin kepingin

SAJAK KUBURAN SANTA CRUZ

Debu batu kerikil jalan menggores-gores tubuh
Darah mencat asfal jalan, keluar dari lobang dibuka peluru
Wajah perih, mata nangis, otak marah, jiwa merana
Jiwa menyatakan merdeka, asing buat mental tentara.

Kuburan terima korban hidup hari itu di Santa Cruz yang tenang
Kaos hanya pengantar keberanian bertekad: “Kita akan menang!”
Wajah bicara sakit mendalam, tubuh dan jiwa, keliling semua negeri,
Ratusan nyawa dan keberanian tak terhingga membeli waktu di TV.

Gerilyawan kencing sendirian di hutan dipeluk sunyi
Bisikan kamerad samar-samar satu-satunya bunyi
Estafeta tiba berkabar bunyi lain: kaki di asfal jalan internasional semakin aksi
Darah Santa Cruz tidak sia-sia, keberanian wajah bertekad, buat kemenangan menjadi saksi.