About Ajip Rosidi,
and was originally published in Jakarta Post,
Jul 31, 2020



The month of July marked another blow for the Indonesian literary scene with the passing of award-winning author and poet Ajip Rosidi.
Ajip died at the age of 82 on Wednesday evening at the Tidar Regional Hospital in Magelang, Central Java, where he had been undergoing post-operative treatment after a fall at one of his children’s homes.