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Julia Suryakusuma

Writer

Born India (Jul 19, 1954), currently resides in Jakarta
Personal Web http://www.juliasuryakusuma.com/
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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


also Writes ...


Frankfurt Book Fair: Indonesian authors on fire!, published in Jakarta Post
Right or wrong: my country or my religion?, published in Jakarta Post


What Media Say


Indonesian activist lifts lid on rape of Chinese women in May 1998 riots: ‘it was a new low’ by Johannes Nugroho — South China Morning Post (May 26, 2023)
Julia and Feminism by Nur Alfiyah — Tempo English (Apr 12, 2021)
Belgium honors Indonesian feminist writer Julia Suryakusuma — Jakarta Post (Mar 11, 2021)
Feminism in the spotlight as Indonesia celebrates Kartini Day by Jewel Topsfield — Sydney Morning Herald (Apr 20, 2016)
Being Feminist And Muslim Is Not Contradiction by Amanda Siddharta — Tempo English (Jun 17, 2014)





Book Story(s)


‘I can walk… because I have legs’ Putu Oka Sukanta’s novel ‘Spaces’ (Spaces: Reflections on a Journey), published in Jakarta Post (Oct 28, 2019)

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