The Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Perth, in collaboration with a number of partners in Western Australia, The Sharon Flindell, the Literature Centre, and The State Library of WA, had organised Indonesian Art and Culture and Culinary Week titled "Jalan-Jalan … [Read more...]

Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati is thrilled to announce the talented Indonesian writers selected for the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024 Emerging Writers Program. From 449 submissions, ten Indonesian writers were chosen by the curating team of literary figures Dee Lestari, Faisal Oddang, and … [Read more...]

Why aren’t the literary scenes of Southeast Asia getting more regional and global traction? Try as international book publishers might, Southeast Asia’s literary scenes cannot easily be distilled to a marketable essence – or bound together. Take the S.E.A. Write Award, for example, a prestigious … [Read more...]

At the recent IBBY Congress in Athens, author Murti Bunanta and illustrator Maria Christania Winardi, both from Indonesia, gave a fascinating presentation “Western and Eastern cultural blend in the past and current Indonesian children’s literature”: They gave an outline history of children’s … [Read more...]

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “poetry”? For some, it might be famous poets like Chairil Anwar, Sapardi Djoko Damono, or even Rupi Kaur. Others might think of works such as "Aku" by Chairil Anwar which still occasionally returns to the spotlight in this modern … [Read more...]