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Indonesian writer confronts COVID-19 through poetry

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Putu Oka Sukanta. Lara Norgaard via The Conversation


In this article: Putu Oka Sukanta

Written by Vannessa Hearman, and was originally published in Conversation

Aug 06, 2021

As Indonesia becomes the world’s COVID-19 epicentre, writer and activist Putu Oka Sukanta’s poetry reflects how the pandemic has changed human relations and ways to maintain optimism and resilience. As a former political detainee – Sukanta was imprisoned for ten years without trial by Suharto’s New Order regime and is one of the diminishing numbers of survivors of the 1965-66 mass violence in Indonesia – he knows too well the government’s shortcomings in meeting the needs of the country’s most vulnerable.

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