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Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature. Indonesian literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago . It is also used to refer more broadly to literature produced in areas with common language roots based on the Malay language (of which Indonesian is one scion ).
Tuan Direktur (literally Mr Director) is a 1939 novel by the Indonesian Muslim cleric and writer Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (Hamka). Originally published as a serial in Hamka's newspaper Pedoman Masjarakat, it follows a man from Banjarmasin who goes to Surabaya, becomes rich, but ultimately is driven to insanity.
In History of Modern Indonesian Literature, Teeuw wrote that modern Indonesian literature began in 1920, with the Indonesian National Awakening. He argued that Indonesian literature, despite the country only becoming independent on 17 August 1945, was born with the concept of a united Indonesia. Teeuw further divided Indonesian literature into ...
Sitor Situmorang (2 October 1924 – 21 December 2014) was an Indonesian poet, essayist and writer of short stories. Situmorang was born in Harianboho, North Sumatra , and educated in Jakarta . He worked as a journalist and literary critic in Medan , Yogyakarta and Jakarta for a variety of newspapers and periodicals.
In 1960 he published an academic work regarding the Indonesian language and literature, entitled Kedudukan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia (The Position of the Indonesian Language and Literature). [2] Usman graduated from the University of Indonesia in 1961 with a degree in literature before formally earning his teacher's diploma the following year ...
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia and Oceania .
The emergence of various literary styles in the period 1950-1965 can not be separated from the existence of cultural polemic in Indonesia. In the midst of an ideological war going on, came the cultural institutions that represent each of the main competing ideologies.
The Indonesian literature published between 1933 and 1942 is sometimes described as from the "Poedjangga Baroe generation", a reference to the publication's dominance. [48] Translator and literary critic Burton Raffel described the magazine as a "midwife to a literary revolution", noting that the political revolution in the 1940s was likely ...