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  • 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…”

  • Poem of Young People By WS Rendra

    Poem of Young People By WS Rendra We are the stuttering generation who have been treated like children by an arrogant generation. We haven’t been given official education in relation to justice, because we’ve been brought up to not get involved in politics, and haven’t been taught about the basics of the legal system. We…

  • A Note from Najwa

    We are Anti-Corruption The deepest respect goes to those who admit doing something after proof turns up, not after being forced to by those who want to shut it down. #CatatanNajwa Source: Najwa Shihab @NajwaShihab Posts by MataNajwa

  • Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok – Brill

    By Dick van der Meij, independent scholar – Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok discusses aspects of the long and impressive manuscript traditions of these islands, which share many aspects of manuscript production. Many hitherto unaddressed features of palm-leaf manuscripts are discussed here for the first time as well as…