Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Museum moves from intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass environmental and semantic destruction, engaging with Javanese literary tradition and the archives of colonial and postcolonial violence. Drawing on a wide array of modes … [Read more...]
The 13th Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa – Winners
Pulang
June 7, 2014 by
Prologue On Sabang Street, Jakarta, April 1968 Night had fallen, without complaint, without pretext. Like a black net enclosing the city; like ink from a monster squid spreading across Jakarta’s entire landscape—the color of my uncertain future. In the dark room, I knew not the sun, the moon, … [Read more...]