Seno Gumira Ajidarma: 2 books
by Gregory Harris, Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Jazz, Perfume & the Incident, by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, was first published in Indonesian in 1996 and is the first major Indonesian literary work to deal critically with the horror of life under military occupation in East Timor. This novel, which defied Indonesia’s regime of censorship, made...
by John H. McGlynn, Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
On November 1991, Indonesian soldiers opened fire on protestors in Dili, capital of East Timor, killing an estimated 250 people. For publishing a report on this massacre, Seno Gumira Ajidarma, an editor of Jakarta-Jakarta magazine at the time, was dismissed from his position. He sought another way...