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Julia Suryakusuma
Writer
Personal Web http://www.juliasuryakusuma.com/
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Currently known as one of Indonesia’s leading and most outspoken opinion-makers, Julia Suryakusuma – columnist, author, activist, feminist, cultural critic – is hard to pigeon-hole. Being Indonesian, but born in India and raised in Europe (UK, Hungary, and Italy) following her parents who worked as diplomats, she was always a foreigner abroad and a stranger in her own country, which made it possible for her to constantly look at things from different perspectives.
As a columnist (writing for the Jakarta Post, the International Herald Tribune, The Daily Yomiuri, NRC Handelsblad, among others), she always tries to “generate a debate” on the most pressing social, political and cultural issues affecting Indonesia.
She is the author of “Sex, Power and Nation: an Anthology of Writings, 1979-2003 (Metafor, 2004), and “Julia’s Jihad” (Prunsoop, 2009, in Korean, and Mizan, 2010 in Indonesian; in English, forthcoming in 2011), and lives in Jakarta.1
Book(s)
Julia’s Jihad
Collection of Short Stories
564 page(s), Komunitas Bambu
Agama, Seks, & Kekuasaan
Collection of Short Stories
524 page(s), Komunitas Bambu
In the Headlines
SCMP / What Media Says
May 26, 2023
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Mar 11, 2021
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Apr 20, 2016
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Oct 28, 2019
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