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Amir began writing poetry while still a teenager: though his works are undated, the earliest are thought to have been written when he first travelled to Java. Drawing influences from his own Malay culture and Islam, as well as from Christianity and Eastern literature, Amir wrote 50 poems, 18 pieces of lyrical prose, and numerous other works ...
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers.He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.
Presided during the Indonesian National Revolution and the first national elections. One of the founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement and hosted the 1955 Bandung Conference. Called for 'Guided Democracy' following the collapse of 10 governments during the 1950s, with Nasakom as its principal ideology. Acceded Western New Guinea.
Idrus was born in Padang, West Sumatera on 12 September 1921. [1] His education before the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in 1942 was entirely in Dutch-run schools, [2] where he read works of Western literature and practiced writing short stories; [1] he finished his education in 1943, then began working at Balai Pustaka – the state-owned publisher of the Dutch East Indies ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto declared victory in Wednesday's presidential election after unofficial results showed him trouncing rivals in his third shot at the ...
Sample vote counts by private pollsters from last week's poll show that incumbent President Joko Widodo is headed for a second and final term in office though the results are being disputed by his ...
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday celebrated the countries' continued cooperation at their seventh and final Leaders' Retreat in Jakarta, an ...
Bookcover of De boeken der kleine zielen - Zielenschemering. First print 1901, by Couperus. [1]Dutch Indies literature or Dutch East Indies literature (Dutch: Indische letteren or Nederlands Indische literatuur, Indonesia: Sastra Hindia Belanda) is the Dutch language literature of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia from the Dutch Golden Age to the present day.