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  • 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.…

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

    Ain’t No Night Fair By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Chapter 1 The letter wouldn’t have upset me so badly if only before it arrived I just hadn’t sent my own letter. My letter contained what I can only describe as something that was going to be very unpleasant to read. The letter I received read like…

  • Obit: The Funeral of RM Hario Soerjo Soebandrio By Noto Soeroto, 1918

    Obit: The Funeral of RM Hario Soerjo Soebandrio By Noto Soeroto, 1918 On 13 November 1918, Raden Mas Hario Soerjo Soebandrio, the younger brother of Z.H. Prince Mangkoe Negoro VII, passed away at the Hague at the age of 29 years, a victim of the current influenza epidemic. On 15 November the funeral took place…

  • Poem of a Young Woman and the Boss By WS Rendra

    “..I’m no rocket scientist, But it’s already fairly clear What this groping means…”