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The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction

January 1, 2021 by

A group of senior citizens set out to visit an amusement park for one last suicidal ride… A wannabe influencer takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover the destination she’s hurtling towards is now underwater... A daughter despairs at her mother’s wish to leave … [Read more...]

Deviant Disciples

January 1, 2021 by

Deviant Disciples features five prominent Indonesian women poets of different generations and cultural backgrounds. Their work demonstrates the powerful ways in which feminist resistance has been articulated in the non-Western World: playful or angry, and always fearless. Edited by writer Intan … [Read more...]

Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya

October 14, 2020 by

Playful, experimental, and charged, Happy Stories, Mostly (Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya) is a collection of ten stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of “decreation,” and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, the stories put queer characters in … [Read more...]

Sambal dan Ranjang

October 13, 2020 by

My husband has a habit of going to bed. He had to eat dinner, complete with mortar sauce on the ground. I'm a little overwhelmed by this habit. But as a wife, I have to comply with my husband's wishes. The ideal wife is a woman who is good at making chili sauce, my mother once told me. I never … [Read more...]

Olenka

September 16, 2020 by

Without the others i have no meaning. It has no function. And nothing. Through Olenka, Budi Darma is in fact revealing the darkest secret in the human soul. Unique characters with raging minds are spoken interestingly. A novel with a full-length title. … [Read more...]