I spend nearly half the year in Indonesia, so the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival always feels like a homecoming, the one place I can sit with local authors, journalists and historians, swap ideas about books and the country’s latest turns, and catch up with friends I only see once a … [Read more...]

Held on Nov. 10 at JPLive! Space, Notes from the In-Between is the first offline event of the Knowledge Series, consisting of an interactive writing workshop helmed by Indonesian-Chinese-American author Xu Xi and followed by a fireside chat. Limited to just 20 participants, the “Writing as Inquiry” … [Read more...]

Sharjah 24: Stories resonate most deeply with children when they are rooted in truth and lived experience, agreed three celebrated children’s authors during a panel discussion titled “Turning Pages, Changing Young Readers’ Lives” at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2025). Moderated … [Read more...]

The Jakarta International Literary Festival (JILF) 2025 has returned as one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic and influential literary platforms. Officially opened by Jakarta’s Deputy Governor Rano Karno at Teater Jakarta, Taman Ismail Marzuki, on Thursday, November 13, 2025, this year’s festival … [Read more...]

Expressing her anger upon discovering that President Prabowo Subianto’s government had attempted to manipulate history through its efforts to rewrite the country’s past, senior journalist Uni Lubis told a session on “Rewriting Indonesian History” at the Alang-Alang Stage of the Ubud Writers and … [Read more...]