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Poem: Aku, Juga Karya Langston Hughes

Oleh Langston Hughes Aku, juga, menyanyikan Amerika. Aku saudaranya yang lebih gelap. Aku disuruh mereka makan di dapur Ketika tamu datang menjenguk. Tetapi aku tertawa, Dan makan dengan lahap, Dan tumbuh semakin kuat.

Novel: Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer #7

Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 4 We relaxed in the front guestroom. My younger siblings who weren’t grown up yet, who still appeared so wild now began to draw near and we talked a great deal – about Djakarta, about Semarang, and about cars. The conversation was not tiresome. It…

Short Story: Fujinkai By Idrus

“..everything I have been saying, I was ordered to say by my superiors..”

The Syair Tabut of Encik Ali, Indonesia and the Malay World

This is an annotated transcription and translation of the Syair Tabut (Poem of the Tomb Effigies) of Encik Ali, a Malay-language, Jawi-script syair account of the Muharram commemorations of 1864 at Singapore.

Poem: Sweet By Murya Artha

We met in plenary session the other day and our leader’s plan was the decision of the meeting in 1945 on the seventeenth of August four years of bloody history ago

Poem: The Meeting By Murya Artha

I’ve dished out enough gun power and saltpeter mortal combat, we’ve even been through that: Only today we write a new page, a page of victory the accounting of the cost to our country, on the level of rising to the stars and we’ve been soared in the seventh line

Southeast Asian manuscripts from the Sloane collection – Asian and African Studies Blog, The British Library

In 1753 the British Museum was founded through the bequest of the vast collections of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1673), including over four thousand manuscripts, which are now held in the British Library.

Declassified: US Ignored Human Rights Abuses as Suharto Rule Ended, GWU National Security Archive

“US Clinton Administration saw stability as more important than human rights..”

Javanese manuscripts in the Sloane collection – Asian and African studies blog, The British Library

“The British Museum was founded through the generosity, intellectual curiosity, and vision of the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). On his death in 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed to the nation his vast collections of natural history specimens, coins, medals and curiosities, as well as 50,000 books, prints and manuscripts, on condition that…

New Film: “Bumi Manusia” By Falcon Pictures

Blora – Soesilo Toer, the brother of Bumi Manusia’s author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, shared his advice on the adaptation of Bumi Manusia into a movie, with Hanung Bramantyo as the director.