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  • Cinema: Salawaku Trailer, Melbourne International Film Festival

      The remote wilderness of Indonesia’s Maluku Islands provides a magnificent backdrop for this gentle journey of youthful discovery. In a secluded village in Indonesia’s beautiful Maluku Islands, ten-year-old Salawaku’s older sister has gone. Salawaku takes it upon himself to find her and sets off on a grand journey into the wild heart of his…

  • Personality: “A Note From Ahok” by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama

    “..I was one of the people always being invited onto Metro TV’s talk show Mata Najwa..”

  • EFEK RUMAH KACA Tiba-Tiba Suddenly konser Again

    Originally posted on Kilometer 95: Hanya berselang beberapa jam saja setelah pesawat Saya landing di Jakarta senin pagi, sambil menunggu bagasi, iseng-iseng Saya cek akun Instagram Saya. Akun @sebelahmata_erk yang merupakan official account band pop minimalis Jakarta, Efek Rumah Kaca men-Share postingan kalau mereka akan mengadakan konser dadakan pada hari rabunya. Konser dengan tajuk “Tiba-tiba…

  • Two Poems for B Resobowo by Chairil Anwar

    By Chairil Anwar I Is this journey far? Just the twinkle of an eye! – How could it be any longer! Then what? Of the falling leaves, you ask for yourself, And of the soft sound which becomes a melody! Does it remain only as a memento? Look at the woman no longer gazing upward…

  • Malay manuscripts from Patani – The British Library – Asian and Africa studies blog

    Patani is a culturally Malay-Muslim region located on the northeast coast of the Malay peninsula, in the southern part of Thailand. It has long been renowned as a cradle of Malay art and culture, and especially as a centre for Islamic learning, with close links with the Holy Cities of Arabia. Patani has produced many…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.…

  • Editorial: Not the Representatives of the Corrupt

    “…The fact is that the direction taken by the House Inquiry Committee can only be read as intended to de-legitimizing the Corruption Eradication Commission.”

  • Op-Ed: Will Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission Be Paralyzed During the Term of President Jokowi?

    “The actions of the Indonesian House of Representatives Committee of Inquiry into the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have become increasingly absurd..”