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Indonesia Out of Exile
Joesoef Isak
Max Lane
Mochtar Lubis
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Written by Walden Bello, originally published in Rappler
Jun 29, 2023
Indonesia Out of Exile
Joesoef Isak
Max Lane
Mochtar Lubis
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Written by Walden Bello, originally published in Rappler
Jun 29, 2023
'This book is not easy to pigeonhole in terms of its genre. It is partly social history, partly a biography of a great writer, partly an intellectual adventure story.'
The following is a review of “Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship” by Max Lane, Penguin Books, 2022.
When I was doing interviews for my dissertation in Santiago, Chile in 1972, I was told that the word “Jakarta” had been spray-painted on walls throughout the city. The message was unmistakable: the Chilean Left should expect the same fate as that which had befallen their comrades in Indonesia in 1965. A year later, the threat in that one ominous word was carried out, as the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown, followed by months of extrajudicial killings and massive repression.
The following is a review of “Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship” by Max Lane, Penguin Books, 2022.
When I was doing interviews for my dissertation in Santiago, Chile in 1972, I was told that the word “Jakarta” had been spray-painted on walls throughout the city. The message was unmistakable: the Chilean Left should expect the same fate as that which had befallen their comrades in Indonesia in 1965. A year later, the threat in that one ominous word was carried out, as the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown, followed by months of extrajudicial killings and massive repression.
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