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TVBS English / What Media Says
Oct 14, 2024

Julia Suryakusuma

Writer



Currently known as one of Indonesia’s leading and most outspoken opinion-makers, Julia Suryakusuma – columnist, author, activist, feminist, cultural critic – is hard to pigeon-hole. Being Indonesian, but born in India and raised in Europe (UK, Hungary, and Italy) following her parents who worked as diplomats, she was always a foreigner abroad and a stranger in her own country, which made it possible for her to constantly look at things from different perspectives.

As a columnist (writing for the Jakarta Post, the International Herald Tribune, The Daily Yomiuri, NRC Handelsblad, among others), she always tries to “generate a debate” on the most pressing social, political and cultural issues affecting Indonesia.
She is the author of “Sex, Power and Nation: an Anthology of Writings, 1979-2003 (Metafor, 2004), and “Julia’s Jihad” (Prunsoop, 2009, in Korean, and Mizan, 2010 in Indonesian; in English, forthcoming in 2011), and lives in Jakarta.1


  1. Nu, Gender & Excellence 

Book(s)


Julia’s Jihad
Collection of Short Stories
564 page(s), Komunitas Bambu
Agama, Seks, & Kekuasaan
Collection of Short Stories
524 page(s), Komunitas Bambu

In the Headlines


Julia and Feminism

Tempo English / What Media Says
Apr 12, 2021

Belgium honors Indonesian feminist writer Julia Suryakusuma

Jakarta Post / What Media Says
Mar 11, 2021

Feminism in the spotlight as Indonesia celebrates Kartini Day

Sydney Morning Herald / What Media Says
Apr 20, 2016

IDWRITERS

Jakarta Post / Writing
Oct 21, 2015

IDWRITERS

Jakarta Post / Writing
Aug 26, 2015

Being Feminist And Muslim Is Not Contradiction

Tempo English / What Media Says
Jun 17, 2014


Crafted by Julia Suryakusuma


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