Dari Orde Baru ke gelombang demonstrasi mahasiswa September, 2019. Sejak kolonialis militer dan birokrasi Belanda dipaksa meninggalkan negeri baru Indonesia tahun 1950, Indonesia hanya pernah mengalami SATU budaya politik dan politik ekonomi yang sungguh-singguh terkonsolidasikan: ORDE BARU. HANYA SATU dan itu adalah sebuah kediktatoran totalitarian kapitalisme kroni. HANYA SATU!! 1946-65 tak ada sistem ataupun budaya […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Happen in the Bumi Manusia Film
Everything You Always Wanted to Happen in the Bumi Manusia Film* (*but Were Afraid to Ask) BY : MIKAEL JOHANI AUGUST 09, 2019, JAKARTA GLOBE The wait is, finally, almost over. The film adaptation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s classic novel “Bumi Manusia,” or This Earth of Mankind, gets its red carpet première in Surabaya today. The choice […]
Bersama Pram, Hasyim dan Joesoef ZIARAH KE MAKAM TIRTO ADHI SOERJO (si Minke itu) – artikel Max Lane, 1992
ZIARAH KE MAKAM TIRTO ADHI SOERJO berziarah bersama Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Hasyim Rachman dan Joesoef Isak. Oleh Max Lane (Ditulis 1992, dan terbit di majalah PROGRES.) (Ditulis 1992, dan terbit di majalah PROGRES.)
Max Lane: Why is Indonesia afraid to teach Pramodeya in school?
Reza Gunadha – Many academics, intellectuals and Indonesian youth can speak fluently on the historical ideas of ancient Greece and modern Europe. But when speaking about the history of their own nation, they are unsure and hesitant or just parrot historical texts or mainstream literature and thus fail to understand the history of their own […]
Reposting: Indonesia: 1965 and the Counter-Revolution against the Nation.
Indonesia: 1965 and the Counter-Revolution against the Nation. By Max Lane +++ “The impact of the counter-revolution was, however, even deeper than the sum of these combined policies – from mass murder and terror to totalitarian imposed ignorance and passivity. The 1965 counter-revolution was a pre-emptive purge aimed at the prevention of the final unfolding […]
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
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 […]
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