NETHERLANDS PERFORMANCES OF: THEY CALL ME NYAI ONTOSOROH The performances will be in Indonesian with English sub-titling. Van onrechtvaardigheid naar onafhankelijkheid In dit toneelstuk, gebaseerd op Bumi Manusia (Aarde der mensen) van Pramoedja Ananta Toer, volgen we de levens van Nyai Ontosoroh, haar dochter Annelies (een halfbloed) en haar ‘inlandse’ schoonzoon Minke. Tragische levens, want […]
New York Times Review of THIS EARTH OF MANKIND by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The 1992 review in THE NEW YORK TIMES of the English language version of Pramoedya’s Bumi Manusia (THIS EARTH OF MANKIND) can now be found here.
MUSIC: The MIM project by Singapore’s MAX LANE
For more on the background of Singapore’s music pesona “Max Lane” and his music: “About The Mim Project
Music: Pramoedya inspires music out of Singapore
It is new and unfamiliar to me too but check out the website http://www.myspace.com/uppmaxlane It is a site which contains information about and the music of the band “MAX LANE”. The piece “Pembukaan” uses excerpts from a speech from Pramoedya Ananta Toer
INDONESIA: Documentary review: “Tjidurian 19”.
Tjidurian 19, directed by Lasja Susatyo and M. Anduh Aziz, screned Jakarta, November 17, 2009 This film is about some of the people who were leading writers and artists in the Peoples Cultural Institute (LEKRA) in the 1960s. LEKRA was aligned with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), and like the PKI was banned after 1965. […]
Tribute to Rendra at Ubud – reflections
The first event at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival that I was scheduled to speak at was the Tribute to Rendra, being held in the evening of the first day, immediately after the opening ceremony. Rendra, one of Indonesia’s most interesting, active, prolific and political playwrites and poets, had died a few weeks earlier […]
Joesoef Isak passed away, August 15, 2007
The Thinker: Joesoef Was Right Monday was Independence Day, the anniversary of the proclamation of independence by Sukarno and Hatta and the beginning of a four-year struggle by millions of Indonesians to prevent a colonial army from seizing back the land they had plundered for 350 years. “ Merdeka atau mati! ” (freedom or death!) […]
On Joesoef Isak
by Max Lane 14 September, 2006 On April 20 2004 in a gala ceremony in New York the American PEN Center honoured Indonesian publisher, Joesoef Isak, with the 2004 Jeri Laber Freedom to Publish Award. The award was given to Joesoef Isak in recognition of his long record of courageous publishing during the years of […]
Jamilia dan Sang Presiden (Jamilia and the President)
29 July, 2006 Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s and up until now, the form of literarture that has been at the forefront of art’s role in political and social renewal has been drama. The playwright Rendra has played the most important role acting as the vanguard of socially and politically committed art in the […]
Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4 July, 2006 Indonesia’s greatest novelist and revolutionary intellectual died in Jakarta on April 30, 2006. Below are three articles by Max Lane, published in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD< GREEN LEFT WEEKLY and JAKARTA POST respectively. (For more materials on Pramoedya see http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/prampage.html and http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm6.html#pram as well as http://www.geocities.com/ticoalu2/ ) Sydney Morning Herald, May 16, […]
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