English Teenlit Akan diadakan pementasan singkat 'Joan of Arc' di sekolah yang akan dihadiri pula oleh seorang bintang film terkenal. Louie bertekad untuk mendapatkan peran utama. Ia melakukan segalanya untuk audisi, termasuk memotong cepak rambut pirangnya yang indah. 'Penampilannya jadi seperti jamur merang' pikir teman-temannya. Tapi Louie tidak peduli. Ia yakin akan mendapatkan peran itulalu kepala sekolah mengumumkan bahwa Kelly Shinosaki terpilih sebagai pemeran utama dan Louie sebagai ...

English Teenlit Empat sekawan Maddy Wilkinson, Louie Eary, Tahnee Caruso, dan Dene Runga belajar di The Shooting Stars, sekolah drama sekaligus agensi yang dipimpin oleh si eksentrik Shelley Sotheby. Keseharian mereka di sekolah dan usaha mereka menggapai cita-cita untuk terjun di industri hiburan terasa begitu segar, lucu, dan kadang tak terduga. Persahabatan mereka dipenuhi tingkah-tingkah konyol dan kocak yang merupakan ciri khas masa remaja. Apakah ambisi empat cewek remaja ini dapat ...

English Teenlit Empat sekawan Maddy Wilkinson, Louie Eary, Tahnee Caruso, dan Dene Runga belajar di The Shooting Stars, sekolah drama sekaligus agensi yang dipimpin oleh si eksentrik Shelley Sotheby. Keseharian mereka di sekolah dan usaha mereka menggapai cita-cita untuk terjun di industri hiburan terasa begitu segar, lucu, dan kadang tak terduga. Persahabatan mereka dipenuhi tingkah-tingkah konyol dan kocak yang merupakan ciri khas masa remaja. Apakah ambisi empat cewek remaja ini dapat ...

English Teenlit Empat sekawan Maddy Wilkinson, Louie Eary, Tahnee Caruso, dan Dene Runga belajar di The Shooting Stars, sekolah drama sekaligus agensi yang dipimpin oleh si eksentrik Shelley Sotheby. Keseharian mereka di sekolah dan usaha mereka menggapai cita-cita untuk terjun di industri hiburan terasa begitu segar, lucu, dan kadang tak terduga. Persahabatan mereka dipenuhi tingkah-tingkah konyol dan kocak yang merupakan ciri khas masa remaja. Apakah ambisi empat cewek remaja ini dapat ...

Sering kali tak mudah bagi anak-anak memahami atau menerima hal buruk saat berhadapan dengan teman yang suka mencuri, mengganggu, berbohong, selalu murung, egois, atau curang. Paket buku cerita bergambar (Good & Bad) ini dirancang untuk mengajari anak cara menghadapi dan memahami berbagai perilaku negatif tersebut, lengkap dengan hal-hal yang menyebabkan seseorang terpaksa melakukannya. Pertanyaan-pertanyaan penuntun dan diskusi-diskusi sederhana membuat anak-anak siap menghadapi aneka perilaku ...

This volume includes 10 short stories and 17 poems by Indonesian exile authors. It also includes 2 short stories by a “domestic” exile writer and 2 biographical stories of former political prisoners. Taken together, the materials present part of the Indonesian exile experience, a segment of Indonesia’s social history that has been ignored for far too long. ...

Set in the tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, The Dancer describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil leading up to and following the abortive Communist coup. ...

Focusing on short stories with the theme of sexual violence towards women. It also features reproductions of social protest posters and a photographic essay on the 1999 election campaign. ...

On November 12, 1991, the Indonesian military opened fire on East Timorese protestors in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Hundreds of people were killed and accounts of this massacre sparked international outrage. In Jakarta a cover-up began immediately: the Soeharto government declared the killings an “accident” provoked by armed provocateurs. The Indonesian mass media was cautioned to tow the official line. Seno Gumira Ajidarma, editor of Jakarta Jakarta at the time, refused to do so and was ...

The months following the fall of Soeharto in May 1998 comprise one of the most tumultuous periods of modern Indonesia history. Many Indonesians refer to those months as the jaman edan, a poetic term for a chaotic time when evil is rewarded and good punished. The jaman edan, while a time of horror and suffering, had its share of absurdity and farce.Jakarta Jive is a chronicle of the jaman edan through the eyes of those who lived through it. At times humorous, at other times harrowing, Jakarta ...

Darius was perfectly comfortable living in his world of occasional inanities. He was the unsullied king of ease and complacency. Nothing could have ruffled his existence until one fateful night when things unaccountably turned complicated. Without rhyme of reason, the women he so dearly loved left him and the one good friend he could always count on for consolation drew him into a web of bizarre events that threatened to turn his world in a tailspin.Set in Jakarta, Heart of the Night explores ...

Danarto is a master short story writer, whose roots reach deep into the Indonesian subconscious. His style is easy and lyrical, yet he deals with subjects of tremendous importance love, death and the possible spiritual greatness of human being.Could man become God? Could he be perfect? Could he bear the rustle of distant breathing? This is a ridiculous dream: it is barely possible that man can become God. It is barely possible that God wants to reveal Himself physically.Burton Raffel has ...

Is Kirk Coningham just another bule choked by the black, leaded hands of the third-world city he lives in? Who, gasping for air, and getting more black fingers stuck up his nose, thinks he can write a book about the city and the black wounds it left in his head? Yes.But Coningham has conscience. His stories are angry at the misogyny of the white expats The Expats, sad at the nearly-doomed love between a motorbike-taxi driver and an office worker Ojek Driver and equally exasperated and ...

The Windows is a novel about the life of a young couple. June, the main character, unfolds the sotry, she tells about her past, her friends, and many other stories related to her life. This novel takes place in different places, such as USA, Singapore, and Indonesia. Questions about the idea of life are clearly depicted in this novel. Why is a life not as easy as man expect> Why is a marriage life not always a happily ever after story, just like a beautiful pricess with her prince harming as ...

They Say I'm a Monkey is a collection of short-stories from the young Indonesian writer Djenar Maesa Ayu. In the eleven stories, Djenar turns footnotes of urban Jakarta life, and the inner lives of the city's inhabitants, into stories that keep in their narratives both the magic and the realism of the place. Stories that will crawl out from the margins into the centre of your conscience. When They Say I'm a Monkey first appeared in Bahasa Indonesia in 2002, it shocked readers with its ...