Best Fiction 2016 from Rolling Stones Magazine. The Winner Writer of Jakarta Art Council Writing Competition 2014 and 2016. “At three in the morning, sweaters, and the streets were dark and lonely... There are maps, directions; and Jakarta, a place we had never visited before.” Roses, blue … [Read more...]
Mata Pena
After discovering a corpse floating at the Manggarai flood gate, Jakarta residents were enraged. The body was identified by police as Kuncoro Lukito, a finance employee of PT Lambda Prima. The media crew was also competing to learn the truth about the incident. Horizon Aneska, a journalist for … [Read more...]
Heart of the Night
Darius was perfectly comfortable living in his world of occasional inanities. He was the unsullied king of ease and complacency. Nothing could have ruffled his existence until one fateful night when things unaccountably turned complicated. Without rhyme of reason, the women he so dearly loved left … [Read more...]
Menolak Ayah
Menolak Ayah: A Sumatran Odyssey is an epic family drama by Ashadi Siregar set against the turbulent years following Indonesia’s independence. The story follows Tondi who as a young man joins the separatist rebellion of the late 1950s and early 1960s in North Sumatra. Later he moves to Java and … [Read more...]