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  • Mother Indonesia

    Although I am no expert in the law of Islam What I do know is the chignon of mother Indonesia is most beautiful More elegant than your chador So perfectly folded is the hair As perfect as the fabric that enfolds your form

  • Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project launched by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X – Asian and African studies blog, The British Library

    On 20 March 2018 Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, visited the British Library to launch the Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project. Through the generous support of Mr S P Lohia, over the next twelve months 75 Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta now held in the British Library will…

  • Film: Asymmetric, WatchDoc Films Trailer

    The full movie is now available here.

  • The Evolution of the Malay Title Page – Asian and African studies blog, The British Library

    Source: The evolution of the Malay title page

  • History: Intellectual writing traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia, Asian and African studies blog, The British Library

    For the past century, studies of the languages, literatures, history, culture and writing traditions of the Malay world of maritime Southeast Asia –

  • Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #6

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 3   We left before dawn to make our way to the station. We queued to buy tickets. The train travelled along the coast, skirting the Java Sea. Sometimes the train would race cars and we watched the sight anxiously. The dust thrown up by cars…

  • Poem: Prayer By Chairil Anwar

    Prayer By Chairil Anwar   To the Devout Believer My LordIn desolationEven though I face great tribulationI remember You fully, completely Your searing holy lightNow just a candle’s flicker in darkness silent My LordI have lost formAm shattered My LordI journey in a foreign country My LordAt Your door I knock I can not turn…

  • Poem: Jesus By Chairil Anwar

    Jesus By Chairil Anwar   To the true Christian. That is the Body streaming blood streaming blood crumpled broken question washes up: What is my sin? i saw the Body streaming blood i looked at my reflection in the blood clearly visible in the eye of the times this shape at once transforms closing wound…

  • Poem: Jesus By Chairil Anwar

    By Chairil Anwar To the true Christian. That is the Body streaming blood streaming blood crumpled broken question washes up: What is my sin? i saw the Body streaming blood i looked at my reflection in the blood clearly visible in the eye of the times this shape at once transforms closing wound i fill…

  • Obit: Father GDA Jonckbloet By Noto Soeroto 1918

    Jubilee: Father GDA Jonckbloet By Noto Soeroto 1918 On 26 September 1918, Father Jonckbloet hopes to commemorate the day that marks 50 years in the Order of Jesus Christ. The grey priest who celebrated his 70th birthday on 28 August, spent 20 years of his working life in India. He will undoubtedly count many friends…

  • Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #5

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 2 (continued)   Suddenly those thoughts died as my eyes fell on one small hamlet in the middle of rice fields surrounded by bamboo thickets and trees. I knew the conditions in this hamlet only too well. At that time, the hamlet had been under the…

  • Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #4

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 2 (continued)   My memory circled back again, the sheep transforming into a person and that person was my father. I sighed. I could feel a shudder in my chest and I moaned. “What’s wrong?” asked my wife. “I might be coming down with a cold,”…

  • Op-Ed: The Armed Forces, Capital, and Politics By Danang Widoyoko

    “..it is very important to develop a policy for creating a professional armed force..”

  • Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #3

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 2 (continued)   I swung my head around and diverted by eyes too from her stare to gaze out through the train window again. We were at Lemah Abang now. All at once an old memory shimmered into my mind. Before, four years ago. Completely out…

  • Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #2

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 2   Early that morning the first train sped along its tracks from Gambir Station. Now there was only a quarter of the number of tall red earthen mounds remaining that had been visible everywhere before during the Japanese occupation each time I returned to Blora.…