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Indonesia Out of Exile

How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship

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Indonesia Out of Exile

By: Max Lane
Narrated by: Richard Bhakti Klein
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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, 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. 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.

©2022 Max Lane (P)2025 Random House Audio Asia Politics & Government Southeast Asia
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