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Indonesia Out of Exile

by Max Lane ISBN: 9789814914178

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A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya's books

In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison under a dictatorship, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian national awakening. It was a best seller and inspired enormous discussion. The dictatorship eventually banned it after several months of tactical struggle by the three men, Pramoedya himself and the fighters of Hasta Mitra, Joeoef Isak and Hasyim Rachman. In defiance of the dictatorship, they went on to publish the three sequels to This Earth of Mankind, each time followed by another battle and then a ban.

This book tells of these men's struggle, from the moment of their arrests, through the prison experience, including the story of the writing of Pramoedya's novels in Buru Island prison camp. It tells of their return from exile into a different Indonesia, with its radical past suppressed. Returning from exile, they explode on to the scene with Pramoedya's epic of the time when the conditions were just forming for the idea of creating such a country as Indonesia to emerge. The new creation story in Pramoedya's novels as well as Hasta Mitra's own struggle to publish those novels in the face of repression inspired a new generation of youth, who succeeded in breaking the dictatorship.

Today, a new generation is being inspired by those same books. So what comes next? About the Author Max Lane has been engaged with Indonesia for over 50 years. In the 1970s, he translated W.S. Rendra’s play The Struggle of the Naga Tribe, which was performed in English in Australia and Malaysia. He spent time with Rendra’s group, Bengkel Teater. In the 1980s, he worked in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta when he started translating Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind and its three sequels, together now known as the Buru Quartet. He was withdrawn from the Embassy by the Australian government for translating these banned books. He later translated Pramoedya’s novel Arok Dedes and historical work, The Chinese in Indonesia. Returning to Australia, as its first editor, he helped found Inside Indonesia magazine. In the 1990s, he actively supported the democracy movements in Indonesia and East Timor and as a journalist wrote hundreds of articles about Indonesia. He has written several books on Indonesia, including Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto, Catastrophe in Indonesia, An Introduction to the Politics of the Indonesian Union Movement and Indonesia and Not , Poems and Otherwise: Anecdotes Scattered . Some have been published in Indonesian alongside other original writings. He has lectured at the University of Sydney and Victoria University and at universities in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. He has been a research fellow at Murdoch University, the National University of Singapore, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies – Yusof Isak Institute, also in Singapore. He is married to Indonesian playwright and theatre producer, Faiza Mardzoeki.

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• ISBN : 9789814914178
• Format : Paperback
• Title : Indonesia Out of Exile

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• Condition: Brand new
• Author: Max Lane
• Book Title: Indonesia Out of Exile
• Language: English
• Format: Paperback
• Type: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789814914178
• UPC: 9789814914178

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