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The year that never ended

Oral histories of 1965

Forty years on

With Suharto gone, the anniversary of the 1965 coup attempt is more controversial than ever

Teacher and Friend

A younger writer remembers Pramoedya’s influence on his own life and work.

Not that I don't love

Not that I don't love
This short story, written by an ex-political prisoner, has never been published in its original Indonesian version. We cannot disclose the author's real name or the various pseudonyms under which she has been publishing since her release. A member ofGerwani, a women's organisation with alleged connections with the Indonesian Communist Party, banned since the so-­called coup of September 1965, the author seems to have started writing fiction only after her detention. The experience colours much of her writing. Most of her short stories are about the down and out, the women whom poverty has driven to theft, begging and prostitution, the 'criminals' (or were they the victims?) with whom the author shared her prison cells.

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