WIT – IDWRITERS

Hōkō (彷徨)

November 5, 2025 by

この閉塞感から逃げ出したい。そんなときに出会ったのが、悪魔がくれた赤い靴だった。ゲームブック形式のフェミニズム文学。 You’ve grown roots, you’re gathering moss. You’re desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red … [Read more...]

Apple and Knife

October 26, 2025 by

In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix. A black velvet butterfly darts out of a cave. Menstrual blood pools in the backseat of a car. Rats pour forth from an open … [Read more...]

Maia’s nachtlied

October 23, 2025 by

Een kritische roman over Indonesië, de Molukken, bewustwording en identiteit tegen een achtergrond van het chaotische Jakarta. Maya’s vreemde dromen beheersen haar nachten. Steeds verschijnt dezelfde vrouw: naamgenote Maia. De levendige dromen nemen Maia mee op onvergetelijke reizen, en gezeten … [Read more...]

Birth Canal

May 6, 2023 by

A dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time. In today’s Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend Nastiti, and what happened on the day she … [Read more...]

Na Willa dan Rumah dalam Gang

May 6, 2023 by

Na Willa’s days are still filled with joy: playing with her little friends, reading new books from Bu Juwita, or singing at RRI. Especially now that Pak is spending more time with her. Pak takes Na Willa to school and buys her ice cream (without telling Mak), teaches her to type in the office, or … [Read more...]