There is now a Crowding site for the Indonesian Community And Activist Library project. We are using the IndieGoGo Generosity platform. You can donate using a credit card and, of course, please share to others who may also like to support this project. You can read more about the project HERE. This is also the […]
The slave Spartacus and reading Dalton Trumbo
Reading Dalton Trumbo (Spontaneous thoughts.) It was Hollywood that got me. In particular the film Spartacus, produced and starring Kirk Douglas, directed by Stanley Kubrick and screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. The other main roles were played by Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov. The film was inspired by Howard Fast’s wonderful novel, also called […]
Indonesia Community and Activist Library (ICAL)
The Project. Also visit this CROWDFUNDING SITE FOR ICAL. This project is to establish a Library for the use of community and campus activists in the student city of Yogjakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia experienced 33 years of authoritarian government from 1965-1998 during which time book acquisitions for school, university and community libraries were underfunded and, when […]
Writing the epic story of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Indonesia
I am currently working to finish a book: Indonesia Returns from Exile: The Buru Quartet Story Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of four books known outside Indonesia as the “Buru Quartet”. They are This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass. These books were first published in Indonesian between […]
Buku UNFINISHED NATION lagi discount
“Buku ini dengan sangat baik mengambarkan betapa pentingnya peran kelompok pelopor,mobilisasi massa dan aksi massa dalam menggerakan sejarah Indonesia . Itu sebabnya buku ini hamper sepenuhnya berlawanan dengan pandangan penelitian tentang Indonesia selama ini, baik dari indonesia sendiri maupun luar negeri, yang selalu menghilangkan peran massa, mobilisasi massa, aksi massa dan ingatan akan revolusi dalam […]
From 1996: Free East Timor! Free Indonesian political prisoners!
Wednesday, August 21, 1996 By Max Lane The dictatorship of President Suharto has occupied East Timor for twenty years and has been responsible for the death of at least 200,000 people. In December 1995, in defiance of the military-backed dictatorship, almost 50 students and young workers, together with 50 East Timorese, climbed over the fences […]
ARTICLE: 50 Years since 30 September, 1965: The Gradual Erosion of a Political Taboo — by Max Lane
“50 Years since 30 September, 1965: The Gradual Erosion of a Political Taboo”, by Max Lane ISEAS Perspective, Singapore | 26 November 2015 Click here for article.
Amidst Indonesia’s Nationalist Atmospherics: The Changing Politics of Jokowi’s Economics By Max Lane
ISEAS PERSPECTIVE, Singapore | 6 November 2015 For full article click here. See also “prequel article”: Singapore | 18 August 2015 The Politics of Widodo’s Prioritisation of Accelerated Infrastructure Construction By Max Lane*
ARTIKEL: 1965: Merehabilitasi Korban, Merehabilitasi Revolusi – Max Lane
Merehabilitasi Korban, Merehabilitasi Revolusi Posted on November 6, 2014 Artikel ini akan diterbitkan tahun depan dalam sebuah buku kumpulan tulisan saya tentang topik-topik yang berkaitan dengan ulangtahun ke50 persitiwa-persitiwa 1965 – yaitu: digulingkannya Sukarno, pembantaian massa pendukung Sukarno dan didirikannya Orde Baru. Diterbitkan sekarang untuk menyambut film SENYAP, film sequel buat film JAGAL, yang baru-baru ini […]
ARTICLE: The Politics of Widodo’s Prioritisation of Accelerated Infrastructure Construction by Max Lane
Published in ISEAS Perspectives, 18 August, 2015. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • After the initial fracas over Cabinet appointments and the tensions between the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), President Widodo launched a programme of speaking at the commissioning ceremonies of major infrastructure projects. Achieving economic growth driven by infrastructure projects has become his key […]
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