Literature

Inside Indonesia and the People’s Culture

Book clubs and creative communities have headed online where they provide Jakartans with vital connections and solace during the pandemic

Indonesian literature is increasingly open to LGBT stories but the struggle to be heard remains

Review: Stormy with a Chance of Fried Rice

Indonesia’s struggle to create a culture of reading

Poems across the Indonesian-Australian divide

Mobile libraries and writers clubs reveal a rich reading and writing culture among Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong

A writer pays homage to the women writers and intellectuals who paved the way for others

Longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize Eka Kurniawan’s novel signals the birth of a sophisticated crime noir genre in Indonesian literature

Like Toer’s tetralogy before it, Semua Untuk Hindia turns Indonesia’s national history narrative on its head

Cancellations at UWRF 2015 were just the latest example of censorship in democratic Indonesia

An emerging poet takes the international stage

Saskia Wieringa’s latest novel brings to life a dark period in Indonesia’s past

An extract from Chapter One of the The Crocodile Hole

Indonesian novels about 1965 reach back to the Mahabharata to find hope and resignation 

Lontar Publishing’s John McGlynn speaks with Petia Dimitrova about the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 at which Indonesia is the Guest of Honour nation and about the challenges of publishing Indonesian literature in translation

Translations of Indonesian literature offer insights into both the universality and particularity of Indonesian culture and society