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  • Poem: Minggu Pertama Anak Perempuanku Karya Gennady Aygi (1934 – 2006)

    Minggu Pertama Anak Perempuanku Karya Gennady Aygi (1934 – 2006)   kesunyian itu tempat anak berada – tampak tak merata dalam batas-batas – dari pantulan rapuh bayangan cahaya: kekosongan! – sebab dunia Tumbuh dalam diri dia – untuk Mendengarkan ke Dirinya sendiri dalam Keutuhannya 22 January 1983   https://poets.org/poem/my-daughters-first-week

  • Podcast Asumsi Bersuara: Cooking Oil Is Scarce, Who’s Playing Games?

    Podcast Asumsi Bersuara: Cooking Oil Is Scarce, Who’s Playing Games?

  • Op-Ed: Majalah Mother Jones: Covid “Endemik” Bukan Berarti Ringan

    Covid “Endemik” Bukan Berarti Ringan Bagaimana ungkapan ilmiah itu menutupi pilihan politik. Oleh Kiera Butler 31 Maret 2022 Coronavirus adalah topik berita yang berkembang pesat, sehingga beberapa konten dalam artikel ini mungkin sudah ketinggalan zaman. Lihat liputan terbaru kami tentang krisis virus corona, dan berlangganan buletin Mother Jones Daily. Musim gugur yang lalu, akhir pandemi…

  • Poem: Walk to the West in the Morning By Sapardi Djoko Damono

    Walk to the West in the Morning By Sapardi Djoko Damono   when i walk to the west in the morning the sun follows me from behind i follow my own shadow which stretches out in front of me. the sun and i have no quarrel about which of us has created the shadow the…

  • Christmas Poem By Sapardi Djoko Damono

    Christmas Poem By Sapardi Djoko Damono   I sought for you in the rain tonight to say to you greetings. You who were born once. born again, and always shall be born and reborn. Oh, have mercy on this your servant. ­————————-tens of thousands of babies have been born since your first birth, as though…

  • Short Story: Bitter Covid By Seno Gumira Ajidarma

    “The ambulance drivers are all exhausted. The grave diggers feels likes they ain’t got no hands left. The preachers is all prayin’ 24 hours a day…”

  • Short Story: The Story of a Pair of Shorts By Idrus

    On the very day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Kusno’s father bought him a pair of shorts. 1001 brand twill pants. Made in Italy.

  • New Book: Vote Buying in Indonesia by Burhanuddin Muhtadi

    “…investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions…”

  • New Album: Menolak Tunduk By Wukir Suryadi

    New Album: Menolak Tunduk [Refuse to Obey] By Wukir Suryadi Based on album notes from Bandcamp: The uncertain situation of the pandemic due to government policies that are not concerned with the welfare and security of the people makes anyone indignant. Survival is initiated independently and collectively through community solidarity action, including protest. Ironically, community…

  • Research Project: Decolonization, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945 to 1950

    Decolonization, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950 KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Project 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…