Putu Oka Sukanta and Goenawan Muhammad reflect on Indonesia's Years of Violence and their friendship with Martin Aleida. Supplementary material for "Indonesia's Years of Violence". The following two interviews with Putu Oka Sukanta and Goenawan Muhammad were conducted online in succession … [Read more...]
Leila S. Chudori’s novel The Sea Speaks His Name goes in search of missing Indonesian student activists
August 25, 2020 by
In the two years after his disappearance, the family of kidnapped student activist Biru Laut continue to lay his place at the table every Sunday. They play the record of his favourite song, Blackbird by The Beatles, and wait for him to come home. Laut may be the fictional protagonist of … [Read more...]
Laksmi Pamuntjak reflects on ‘Fall Baby’, her time in self-quarantine
August 23, 2020 by
Like many other people during self-quarantine, award-winning Indonesian novelist, poet and essayist Laksmi Pamuntjak went through different stages. In the first two months, she found it difficult to write anything other than emails and messages to friends asking how they were. “You’d think it … [Read more...]
A quick interview with Kate Wakeling, co-translator of ‘The Adventures of Na Willa’
August 23, 2020 by
It's launch week for our latest children’s book, The Adventures of Na Willa, a collection of stories about a little girl growing up in Surabaya, Indonesia. Here's a quick interview with one of the translators, Kate Wakeling! What were your first thoughts on reading The Adventures of Na … [Read more...]
An Indonesian Poet Uses Queer Catholic Saints to Create an Alternative Gospel
August 23, 2020 by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu on being a multiple outsider and searching for liberation in “Sergius Seeks Bacchus”. Norman Erikson Pasaribu was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia but his roots lie in the ethnic Christian Batak community of Sumatra; his family represents the many strands of internal … [Read more...]
