““Banyak pesan yang terdapat dalam karya-karya Pramoedya yang terinspirasi dari RA Kartini. Pramoedya melihat Kartini sebagai pemikir zaman pencerahan Indonesia. Dalam karya-karya Pramoedya, terkandung pesan-pesan seperti kebangkitan nasional Indonesia di era 1920-an,” kata Max Lane.” Baca disini.
Film BUMI MANUSIA: sudah dengar?
Belum membaca BUMI MANUSIA oleh Pramoedya Ananta Toer? Bisa juga dibaca dalam bahasa Inggeris. Di Indonesia dijual di toko buku Periplus.
Sudah dengar heboh ttg film BUMI MANUSIA?
Sudah dengar heboh ttg film BUMI MANUSIA? Mau membaca salah satu perspektif tentang buku tsb dan pengarangnya Pramoedya Annata Toer. Silahkan cari buku ini di toko buku dekat anda atau di toko buku online:
Indonesia: 20 Years After Suharto, Is Something Starting Anew? Comment piece on Verso Books blog by Max Lane
“Suharto came to power in 1965 in events that brought this contestation to an end, by burying it via a genocidal wave of systematic mass killing and terror, repression, and a drastic dictatorship over historical memory. The 33 years of Suharto’s rule, therefore, in some ways represents 100% of the existence of the nation-state now […]
NGEPAS VILLAGE BOOKS AND ART SPACE LIBRARY OPENING SOON
Hi everybody, Hi to all our 97 donors. First, I would like to announce that building the Library, receiving the books and shelving them is completed. We still need to arrange the books better on the shelves and create a catalogue. However, we will be ready to organise a soft opening for the Library and […]
A New Ideological Contestation Emerging in Indonesia? (Article by Max Lane)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A long period of ideological vacuum in mainstream politics came to an end in the lead-up to the 2014 presidential elections and was further confirmed in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial elections. This was initially reflected in the different stances of 2014 presidential candidates Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto on issues such […]
The Politics of Wages and Indonesia’s Trade Unions (Article by Max Lane.)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. In 2015, all unions opposed a new regulation on wages that restricted the use of the dignified standard of living condition. In the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial elections, a coalition of unions signed a Political Contract with one set of candidates who promised wage increases above those mandated by recent government regulations. […]
The Further Erosion of an Indonesian Political Taboo (Article) by Max Lane
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 16-17 September 2017, groups opposed to alternative perspectives on the events of 30 September 1965 (G-30S/PKI) and its aftermath, mobilised to disrupt a seminar held in Jakarta. These were the same groups that mobilised against ethnic Chinese Christian former Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama in late 2016 to early […]
SOUND: About Bali – a poem to listen to.
Bali, Indonesia: a poem with music. Click on HERE to listen.
Article Link: INDONESIA AND THE FALL OF SUHARTO: PROLETARIAN POLITICS IN THE “PLANET OF SLUMS” ERA by Max Lane
Published June 2010 in JOURNAL OF LABOR AND SOCIETY Abstract This essay summarizes some of the basic features of the “informal proletariat” in Indonesia using the definition presented in Mike Davis’s Planet of the Slums. These include features that flow from the low levels of industrialization of the national economy as well as those related […]
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