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p.a.t. museum: June 2007
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Indonesian writer speaks about rights. Indonesia's best known novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, will speak tomorrow at a memorial service for victims of human rights abuse at Toronto's Metro Square at 3 PM. Human rights groups estimate that more than 200 people are currently imprisoned in Indonesia for their political beliefs. Although the current regime has released a number of them, Pramoedya (Javanese rarely use family names) is skeptical. The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1999. Toer, born in 1925 in Blora i...
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p.a.t. museum: July 2007
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I Only Can Opposite with Words". The name of Indonesia's most frequently banned writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, crops up in the media each year in the run-up to Hari Kesaktian Pancasila (Pancasila Victory Day) on 1 October, the national celebration of the defeat of Communism in 1965. So too does the accusation that he was involved in the censorship and oppression of writers by the PKI in the early 1960s. Bannings make no contribution to Indonesia's development. Whereas writing a book can take years, b...
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p.a.t. museum: Max Havelaar: The Book That Killed Colonialism
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Max Havelaar: The Book That Killed Colonialism. About 50 years ago, at a diplomatic reception in London, one man stood out: he was short by European standards, and thin, and he wore a black fezlike hat over his white hair. From his mouth came an unending cloud of aromatic smoke that permeated the reception hall. This man was Agus Salim, the Republic of Indonesia's first Ambassador to Great Britain. Is my tale about an Indonesian at the court of King James the greatest story of the millennium? Certainly n...
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p.a.t. museum: Indonesian writer speaks about rights
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Indonesian writer speaks about rights. Indonesia's best known novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, will speak tomorrow at a memorial service for victims of human rights abuse at Toronto's Metro Square at 3 PM. Human rights groups estimate that more than 200 people are currently imprisoned in Indonesia for their political beliefs. Although the current regime has released a number of them, Pramoedya (Javanese rarely use family names) is skeptical. The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1999. Enter your search terms.
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p.a.t. museum: May 2007
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Strangers Who Are Not Foreign". This paper illuminates Pramoedya's public role as an intellectual by examining how his book sparked an unprecedented debate about Chinese Indonesians. In Hoa Kiau, Pramoedya begins to address racialism while interrogating the notion of Indonesian identity. He locates the 1960 regulation in historical context, thereby stressing its continuity with racially based policies of Dutch colonial rule. Sumit K. Mandal, Cornell University. Posted by p.a.t nurdayah. This paper argues...
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p.a.t. museum: Changing Consciousness in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa
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Changing Consciousness in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Bumi Manusia and Anak Semua Bangsa. The second is the presence of other characters, and the impression their alternative examples and expectations make on him. Attention is also paid to the literary devices the author uses to represent the process of changing consciousness and to prompt responses from his readers that further the concerns of the text. 169; 1996 Alex G Bardsley. Copies from MA Thesis, Cornell University, August 1996. Enter your search terms.
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p.a.t. museum: "I Only Can Opposite with Words"
http://lentera-pram.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-only-can-opposite-with-words.html
I Only Can Opposite with Words". The name of Indonesia's most frequently banned writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, crops up in the media each year in the run-up to Hari Kesaktian Pancasila (Pancasila Victory Day) on 1 October, the national celebration of the defeat of Communism in 1965. So too does the accusation that he was involved in the censorship and oppression of writers by the PKI in the early 1960s. Bannings make no contribution to Indonesia's development. Whereas writing a book can take years, b...
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p.a.t. museum: Indonesia's Greatest Writer
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In "Diajang menjerah", "She Who Gave Up", a short story published in a 1952 collection (Tjerita dari Blora, "Stories from Blora"), he wrote:. No different from rice under the Japanese Occupation.'. Toer, born in 1925 in Blora in central Java, was the country's most distinguished novelist and, significantly, published in the United States. His life was spared. The generals dared not execute him, but hoped that the conditions in which he was kept would take care of the problem. After 15 years in his countr...
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p.a.t. museum: Literature, Censorship and the State: To What Extent is a Novel Dangerous?
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Literature, Censorship and the State: To What Extent is a Novel Dangerous? As ideas from all corners of the world are absorbed by modern Indonesian society toward the end of the 20th century, their reflection can no longer possibly be blocked by a Power that is reluctant to grow up.7 In order to allow [those] people with the power of the state to sleep soundly without the need to improve themselves, the institution of censorship does indeed need to be established. That the works are forbidden to circulat...
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p.a.t. museum: I Just Don't Believe in Her
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I Just Don't Believe in Her. I don't blame President Sukarno for my arrest in the early 1960s. I blame the army. But being a political prisoner in the early 1960s was very different from being a captive of later regimes. Sukarno's political opponents were free to visit their families, to go out walking within a limited area if they wanted to. We were at least treated with respect. But for that you had to pay. Did she ever protest when her fellow countrymen were imprisoned? People like to say that Indones...
