“In January 2014 Joshua Oppenheimer’s film on Indonesia, The Act of Killing, was nominated for an academy award, reflecting its penetration into mainstream film watching. Many people will be introduced to Indonesia by this vivid study of the country’s ruling lumpen elite. Another, very different, … [Read more...]
Sabda Armandio Tries To Step Out Of The Shadow Of His Alter Ego With A New Detective Novel
August 16, 2017 by
Arthur Harahap is a man of many talents who lives in Indonesia, but nobody has ever met him. Some people call him a writer, some say he's unemployed, some say he's a cook at a Padang restaurant. Sabda Armandio, the author who first debuted Arthur on his blog, admits that he's still not sure who … [Read more...]
‘I’m a Third-Culture Kid, So I’m Always Nowhere’
August 16, 2017 by
We spoke with Mikael Johani about the re-issue of his poetry anthology "We Are Nowhere and It's Wow." Who would've ever thought that the bitchy critic/ essayist Mikael Johani was such a poet? Not me, that's for sure. I was already pretty familiar with Mikael's essays when his poetry anthology We … [Read more...]