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Jakarta Post / What Media Says
Feb 06, 2025

Jakarta Post / What Media Says
Feb 01, 2025

Reflections of the Feminist Movement on the Rejection of JILF: “Who Do We Work With?”

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Intan Paramaditha and Trend Asia have simultaneously announced their withdrawal from organizing the 2024 Jakarta International Literary Festival (JILF). JILF is considered not taking a firm stance against pro-genocide sponsors in Gaza, Palestine.

The 2024 Jakarta International Literary Festival (JILF) was held November 27 – December 1, 2024 brought green narrative theme. Along the event, several parties withdrew and stopped cooperating with the organization of the literary event.

JIFL, which this year aims to promote literature and culture as well as environmental sustainability, is considered not transparent by the organizers. They are also not assertive about the sponsors behind the event, who considered to be pro-genocide in Palestine.

The pro-genocide sponsors in question: Frankfurter Buchmesse and the German Federal Foreign Officer.

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