Short 500 word commentary – 2019/79, 24 September 2019 On 23 September, large student demonstrations took place in cities and towns in Indonesia. In some cities, including Jakarta, more demonstrations were planned for 24 September. In most cases, the demonstrations were orderly, with clashes resulting in injuries only in Bandung. (In Papua on the same […]
The Papuan Question in Indonesia: Recent Developments
by Max Lane (Written approx 2 September, 2019) “• Papuan nationalist agitation and violent protests escalated in mid-August 2019 within Papua and in various Indonesian towns, especially after video footage of security personnel calling Papuan activists “monkeys” were widely circulated. Such footage revived longstanding allegations of discrimination against Papuans in Indonesia. Papuan protests have increasingly called for an act […]
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 […]
Film BUMI MANUSIA: menggali pemikiran Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Untuk menggali pemikiran Pramoedya Ananta Toer tentang INDONESIA tentu saja tugas utama adalah membaca buku-bukunya, terutama mulai dengan Bumi Manusia. Sebentar lagi karena akan ada Bumi Manusia The Movie ada kemungkinan bahwa ide-idenya Pramoedya akan lebih sering dibicarakan di masyarakat. Buku Indonesia Tidak Hadir di Bumi Manusia: Pramoedya, Sejarah dan Politik oleh Max Lane merupakan salah satu […]
Siapa yang menulis naskah BUMI MANUSIA?
Dalam cerita yang kita bisa ikuti dalam buku-buku BUMI MANUSIA, ANAK SEMUA BANGSA, JEJAK LANGKAH dan RUMAH KACA siapa sebenarnya menulis naskah BUMI MANUSIA? Jawaban terhadap pertanyaan ini adalah kunci untuk bisa menangkap makna sejati dan lengkap daripada buku BUMI MANUSIA. Untuk bisa menjawab pertanyaan ini harus (a) jangan lupa merenungkan halaman pertama BUMI […]
The 2019 Indonesian Elections: An Overview by Max Lane
Singapore | 14 June 2019 ISEAS PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: (Click below on the article title) The 2019 Indonesian Elections: An Overview by Max Lane
New Book: Continuity and Change after Indonesia’s Reforms: Contributions to an Ongoing Assessment
12 essays on aspects of politics since 2013 Authors are: Ull Fiona, Mada Sukmajati, Rizki Alvian, Wawan Mas’udi. Amalinda Savirani, Cornelis Lay, Leo Agustino, Ahmad Rizky Mardhatillah Umar, Richard Chauvel, Yatun Sastramidjaja, Max Lane. For contents, click HERE. In Indonesia, this book can be obtained in PERIPLUS Bookshops. Otherwise order by clicking HERE.
AMSTERDAM EVENT: COLONIAL LEGACIES TODAY: INDONESIA AND THE NETHERLANDS
ALL DAY PUBLIC SEMINAR/FORUM: COLONIAL LEGACIES TODAY: INDONESIA AND THE NETHERLANDS ALl Welcome. Venue: IRRE Rooms, Lombokstraat 40, 1094 AL Amsterdam, Netherlands Date and Time: Saturday, 18 May 2019 from 10:00-17:00 UTC+02 (Click here for FACEBOOK EVENT) This seminar will bring together two themes. One is colonialism in the Netherlands Indies as a form of racism, […]
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.)
Venezuela and the World – 3
VENEZUELA and the World 3. Some little reflections: It is necessary to understand that the conflict in Venezuela manifests a war between classes, not between factions of the one class, as in elections in “normal” bourgeois democracies.. The victor will not be inclined to give the other side a chance to come back into power […]
