It is in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, in the 1950s, when Ah Lam is married off to Cheng Lei, the son of a wealthy merchant, to help improve her family’s situation as she is of age. Once settled in Surabaya, Ah Lam soon finds herself dealing with an abusive husband while raising her young children … [Read more...]
The Year of Living Dangerously
March 17, 2026 by
The year is 1965. The fiercely nationalistic government of the god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the brink of chaos. Engulfed in the violence are Guy Hamilton, a Western journalist; Billy Kwan, his Chinese-Australian cameraman; and the young British woman they both love. Kwan's … [Read more...]
Trivia Kampung Sawah
March 17, 2026 by
IRZI localizes the urban landscape and its gestures within poetry through a somewhat different articulation—if poetry has long been merely textual. Rooted in orality, IRZI’s poetic practice possesses a rhetorical movement that is problematic in relation to its ethnographic character: moving from … [Read more...]
Borasih
February 6, 2026 by
When beauty is no longer a matter of care, but an ancient rite of women’s resistance. At the foot of Bukit Ciambarang, two women meet amid the feud of two giant cosmetic dynasties: Galinggih in the East, and Wirasandi in the West. They are heirs to the trauma of Ciambarang’s conflicts and politics. … [Read more...]
