After ten years wandering the world, Agustinus Wibowo has finally come home. He is now forced to face a reality that he has always feared. His mother is on the brink of death, as cancer ravages her body. Not unlike Scherazade who reads through one thousand and one tales over as many nights, the … [Read more...]
Journal
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand … [Read more...]
Bule Hunter: Kisah Para Perempuan Pemburu Bule
Indonesian women who have Western partners or husbands are often met with negative, sometimes harsh judgment from people around them, from gold diggers to exotic-looking harlots. When you see an Indonesian woman with brown complexion walking together with a Western man, for example, you might hear … [Read more...]