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Joesoef Isak – New York the American PEN Center

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August 15, 2018 — by IDWRITERS

Last updated on August 15, 2018 at 8:59 am


In 2004, in a gala ceremony in New York the American PEN Center honoured Indonesian publisher, JOESOEF ISAK, with the 2004 Jeri Laber Freedom to Publish Award. The award was given to Joesoef Isak in recognition of his long record of courageous publishing during the years of the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia. Joesoef Isak is not just a courageous publisher, he is one of Indonesia’s finest intellectuals who has been at the forefront of a cultural guerrilla war to win back for Indonesians their own history, stolen from them during the 332 years of dictatorship.


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