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Poem: Heaven By Chairil Anwar
By Chairil Anwar, 1947 Just as my mother and my grandmother too And as seven generations before I too ask to be allowed into heaven which say Masyumi and Muhammadiyah flows with rivers of milk and is full of beautiful maidens But there’s a voice inside me weighing this up, which dares to scoff: Can…
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Poem: Arctic Tuti By Chairil Anwar
By Chairil Anwar, 1946 Between happiness now and in the future yawns a great canyon, My little sis, lapping up an arctic ice dessert; This afternoon you were my love, I decorated you with eclair and Coca-Cola, My wife in training: we made the clock tick stop.
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Poem: Night Time in the Mountains By Chairil Anwar
Night Time in the Mountains By Chairil Anwar, 1946 I wonder: Is it this moon that makes the cold, makes the houses pallid and freezes the forest? This is the first time I’ve been so completely able to respond to the desire: Hey, there’s a little kid playing tips with her shadow! Pantja Raja, No.…
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Op-Ed: Not the Representatives of the Corrupt
Postings from the SFI archives
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Op-Ed: Not the Representatives of the Corrupt
Legislators go on safari
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“Framing Asia” – The next monthly film screening and discussion during the Leiden Asia Year – KITLV
‘Framing Asia’ is a monthly film screening and discussion on Asia during the Leiden Asia Year. We are very pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of ‘Framing Asia’. You are welcome to join us on Wednesday 7 June at 19.30 h at Lipsius 028. This edition will screen three films centered around the…
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‘Adat law 100 years on: Towards a new interpretation?’ – KITLV
REMINDER: The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI), in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), organize an international conference on the continued importance of adat law in present day Indonesia on 22 May 2017. International Conference: ‘Adat law 100 years on: Towards a new interpretation?’…
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Photography: Exhibition of Colonial Photography
Images from the Dutch East Indies have been legitimizing Dutch colonial activity since the 17th century…
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History: British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world, Asian and African studies blog, The British Library
British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world Asian and African studies blog – The British Library The presence of an inscription in Arabic script is such a defining characteristic of seals used by Muslims that it tends to mask the fact that similar ‘Islamic’-style seals were also used by myriad other groups, including Christians…
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Elections: The politics of Islam in Indonesia: 2017 Jakarta elections and beyond
KITLV / Amnesty International Seminar 2017 The Politics of Islam in Indonesia: 2017 Jakarta Elections and Beyond By Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin (From KITLV) Is conservative Islam gaining ground in Indonesia? The gubernatorial elections in Jakarta have convinced many that the political clout of Islamic organizations has grown. Demands that the incumbent Basuki Tjahaja…
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History: Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950: KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950 KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950 is a large-scale, joint inquiry carried out by KITLV, the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH) and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The project has been made financially…
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Seminar: The politics of Islam in Indonesia: Jakarta elections and beyond, by Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin
KITLV / Amnesty International Seminar, March 9 2017 ‘The Politics of Islam in Indonesia: Jakarta elections and beyond’, By Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin Is conservative Islam gaining ground in Indonesia? The gubernatorial elections in Jakarta have convinced many that the political clout of Islamic organizations has grown. Demands that the incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama –…
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Film: Where Do We Want to Take Our Cinema? Reblog from Melangit Merah
“..I find it so hard to find any good Indonesian films..”
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