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ASEAN Literary Festival 2016

The ASEAN Literary Fesval is a cultural event where all ASEAN countries can share

in proximity, familiaries in culture literary interests oen inuenced by the

colonial experience. This Fesval is the rst literary event to focus primarily on the

quality of the ASEAN region’s literary works. By building a bridge between people of

literature and the general public, we aim to promote the cultures, arts and literary

works not only in our region but to the broader global audience.

The fesval presents ASEAN’s poets, novelists, playwrights, crics, scholars and

arsts who perform, share and discuss the role of literature in our cultures which

will help our member countries to foster a just society, encouraging human rightsand democracy.

We are very honored to open the 3rd ASEAN Literary Fesval 2016 with Nobel Prize

Winner José Ramos-Horta. This event will also include an modern Indonesian pup-

pet show and a symphony orchestra from Korea. At a me when our world is both

unpredictable and challenging, we hope to learn from these rich literary exchanges

and experiences year aer year in our broader region.


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important to the successful formaonof ASEAN community, which has been

declared by the region’s leaders in De-

cember 2015.

The countries of the ASEAN region have

many things to be proud of—including

the achievements of its literary writers.

Unfortunately, unl today, these writers

and their life’s work have not been ade-quately supported and promoted.

While our neighbors in Northeast Asia,

such as Japan and China, and South

Asia, especially India and Pakistan, are

globally recognized as the connent’s

literary powerhouses, only a few South-

east Asian writers have gained interna-

onal recognion.

In a world that puts a premium to digital

hype, noise and materialism, it’s easy to

dismiss the fundamental role of writers

and their work. Aer all, it seems that

literature is the last thing that most

people need in the struggle to survive in

this part of the world.

However, we rmly believe that only

when we have a commensurate num-

Here we are. Against all odds, theASEAN Literary Fesval is coming back

for the third year. We are proud to have

proven our durability and kept our

dream of building a tradion alive. We

feel we are now in a point of no return

as we grow and gain more support

while more people in the region are ex-

pecng the fesval to return each year.

This year the fesval takes the theme“The Story of Now” with dozens of

sessions discussing pressing issues

facing our society. From environments

to digital hype and from human rights

and democracy to refugee problems,

we intend to stay relevant and crical to

open debate and help nd soluons.

The ASEAN Literary Fesval is the rst

event to gather writers from ASEANcountries in one literary event in which

they will share ideas on how writers

can contribute to the enhancement of

society.

The fesval is being organized as a plat-

form for writers, arsts and the general

public in the region to get to know one

another in greater depth. Thus they

acquire a sense of common identy so

From The Director


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ber of masterful writers can the ASEANregion become truly a Socio-cultural

Community, one of the three pillars

of the envisioned ASEAN Community.

We do have a deep psychological and

spiritual need for such a community.

The words wrien by poets, conists,

dramasts and other creave writers

will connue to provide us the peoples

of the region with uncommon sense,conscience and wisdom that will guide

us through upheaval and uncertainty

long aer policians and bureaucrats

have le the arena of power and have

descended to oblivion.

Of course, it is lamentable that as we

enter the middle of the second decade

of the 21st century, Southeast Asia hasyet to produce a Nobel Prize winner in

literature. Japan already has two Nobel

laureates, with one more of its own,

Haruki Murakami, a possible winner in

the years ahead. China has Mo Yan as

its rst Nobel laureate while India’s Ra-

bindranath Tagore won the prize as early

as the rst part of the 20th century.

Nevertheless we do have writers who

have earned global crical acclaim,

including the late novelist PramoedyaAnanta Toer from Indonesia and the

Filipino epic poet Dr. Cirilo F. Bausta.

Both, and perhaps a few others we may

not know about, are as accomplished as

any Nobel laureate. They have proven

that ASEAN, a region of 600 million

people, can also produce literary giants

even if they do not enjoy the support

and the popular global audience thatthey deserve. And even if our region

does not have a tradion of publishing

that adequately serves the region’s

creave writers.

Thus, we the organizers of the ASEAN

Literary Fesval, intend to hold more

than just an event. We are here to build

a tradion that will outlast all of us andthat we hope will endure over the cen-

turies ahead so that it will never cease

to provide opportunies for writers to

develop and enjoy the appreciaon that

is their due.

Abdul Khalik

co-Founder and Director


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Nobel Prize Winner Jose Ramos Horta’s

lecture is a proof to our commitment

to present inuenal gures in the

region who have fought for democracy,

freedom and jusce.

The fesval also presents a series of

discussions about human rights where

prominent human rights lawyers,

writers and academics meet to discuss

pressing humanitarian problems of our

me. With full awarenes we also give

space to “sensive” issues which have

been banned in many places within this

country. From LGBT to 65 tragedy, the

ASEAN Literary Fesval will stand strong

against any censorship and eort toshut down freedom of expression.

We also connue to be innovave and

challenge our creavity to present dis-

cussions about literature and pressing

issues in a form that can be enjoyed

by more people. Tickets for a talkshow

presenng Indonesia’s poets, Sapardi

Djoko Damono and Joko Pinurbo, forinstance, have been sold out way be-

We started the ASEAN Literary Fesval

2016 with a residency program where

13 young writers from ASEAN, Timor

Leste and Japan were selected in an

open selecon process. Since April 29

they lived and interacted with residents

of Kampung Muara, a neighborhood of

500 families along the Ciliwung River in

South Jakarta.

This program was born out of realiza-

on that writers and literature should

become part of the society, and not

monopolized only by elite groups and

a handful of the so-called intellectuals.

With this residency program we hope

that more literary works connect andcan voice problems within the society.

From the very beginning, ASEAN Liter-

ary Fesval always presents programs

which reect our stance that literature

and literary works should take side with

the public interests, and always voice

and ght for humanity and jusce.

A Festival For People


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fore the fesval. This shows that people

are sll very much enthusiasc about

literary works, and that interest in

literature is not as bad as we previously

imagined. We just need to push our-

selves closer to to the people, and get

down from the ivory tower, destroying

exclusivism and elism of writers and

literary works.

From the voices of women and people

of Papua and Timor Leste, from leg-

endary writers to young and emerging

ones, we will connue to try to become

a fesval with programs that reect

what really happens within literature

and society within the Southeast Asianregion.

Okky Madasari

Co-Founder and Program Director


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While connuing with a steady commit-

ment to human rights and social jusce

literature, this year’s ASEAN Literary

Fesval has excelled in aracng not

only the energy of young as well as

established regional writers but oers

the opportunity to dig deeper in dialogue

with social jusce shapers from our wid-

er neighbourhood.

Inving award winning internaonal vi-

sionaries from our region such as Timor

L’este’s Jose Ramos-Horta and Australia’s

Julian McMahon provides a moment in

me for ASEAN community members

to listen and discuss the past but also

idenfy the progressive opons that lieon the horizon. What will the literature

reect about our era in the future? Can

we be so bold as to write about the

future today?

Social Justice Shapers

This year’s Fesval marks a signicant

achievement in the region where people

can come and learn, contribute, build

networks, write and gain condence in

an unpredictable and changing world.

Humanitarian literature expands our

thinking and our awareness about what

can be. This 2016 program of inspira-

on not only tells the “Story of Now”, it

serves to engage networks of diversity

and strengthen the connecons at the

community level for a world in which we

want to live.

The ASEAN Literary Fesval is rmly

established as a cornerstone event in our

region where the future can be planted,incubated, fostered and nourished.

Mary Farrow

Director for Internaonal Cooperaon


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PROGRAMS


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On Freedom and Peace

Jose Ramos-Horta is an ex-prime minister

and ex-president of Timor Leste who is

known as an internaonal peacemaker.

In 1996, José Ramos-Horta was awarded

the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work

toward a just and peaceful soluon to

the conict in East Timor.” While serving

as President and the internaonal voice

of the young government, he personally

created peace iniaves ranging from

a world class mountain bike “race for

peace” to opening his oce for youth

from neighboring areas to come and

peacefully resolve conicts. His an-pov-erty iniaves, including building homes

for the neediest, lied tens of thousands

out of extreme poverty. His leadership

and experse have walked Timor-Leste

toward a new era of peace, reconciliaon

and economic growth. José Ramos-Hor-

ta’s work in taking his country from dev-

astang conict to peace and economic

growth in just over a decade serves as

a model for building democracy in the

twenty rst century. In 2012 he accepted

an appointment from the UN Secretary

General as Special Representave of the

Secretary General to the African naon

of Guinea Bissau.


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Human Rights X Literature

A human rights advocate and erce

opponent of the death penalty, barris-

ter Julian McMahon has a personal and

passionate commitment to represent

Australians in capital punishment cases

abroad. Admied to the Victorian Bar in

1998, for more than 13 years Julian has

worked without payment for Australians

facing the death penalty. Julian’s clients

include Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore,

George Forbes in Sudan and members of

the Bali Nine, Andrew Chan and Myuran

Sukumaran. In the months leading up to

the execuons of Chan and Sukumaranin April 2015, the overwhelming de-

mands of their case required Julian and

other lawyers on the case to make many

personal sacrices and, in Julian’s case,

to exclude all other work. Instead, he

remained wholly focused on his clients.

Julian is on the board of Jesuit Social

Services and is now President of Reprieve

Australia. Arculate and measured, with

longstanding community involvement,

Julian speaks publicly about the death

penalty and jusce issues.


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THURSDAY, MAY 5 2016


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FRIDAY, MAY 6 2016


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ASEAN-JAPAN

Residency Program 2016


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SPEAKERS &

ARTISTS


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Speakers & Artists

Ananda Sukarlan

Anton Kurnia

Angga Sasongko

Ananda Sukarlan is an Indonesian Pianist. He started his music

lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Martani Widjajan. Aer

graduang from Kolese Kanisius(Canisius College, Jakarta) in 1986,

he connued to study in University of Harord in Conneccut, under

a scholarship from Petrof Piano. He then went to Europe when he

was 17, graduated with summa cum laude in 1993 from the Royal

Conservatory of Den Haag under the guidance of Naum Grubert and

was a prize winner of many internaonal compeons, such as the

Nadia Boulanger Award of Orleans. He was the rst Indonesian arst

who established the cultural relaonship between Portugal and

Indonesia by performing as a soloist with the Portuguese Naon-

al Symphony Orchestra in 2000, right aer the re-opening of the

diplomac relaonship between the two countries. He is a founding

member of Musica Presente and of Jakarta Conservatory of Music.

Anton Kurnia was born in Bandung, West Java, in 1974. He is an au-

thor, translator, and editor. His books are Insomnia (2004, short story

collecon, translated into English in 2015 as A Cat on the Moon andOther Stories), Dunia Tanpa Ingatan (2004, essay collecon), Ensiklo-

pedia Sastra Dunia (2006), and Mencari Setangkai Daun Surga: Jejak

Perlawanan Manusia Atas Hegemoni Kuasa (2016, essay collecon).

He translated Nabokov’s Lolita and many other novels and short

stories from English into Indonesian. Currently he also works as

Editor-in-Chief of Baca, a publisher in Jakarta.

Angga Sasongko from Visisinema is a lm director and

iniator of sinedu.or.id.


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Ahda Imran

Ahda Imran (49) is an Indonesian poet and writer. He writes a

famous monolog about Soekarno’s wife Inggit Garnasih and played

by actress Happy Salma. His script and play describing the life of TanMalaka, one of Indonesia’s most famous and inuenal freedom

ghters, was banned early this year by the authories, highlighng

the worsening of the country’s freedom of expression.

Akina Shu

Akina Shu is a Japanese editor working at the Eiken Foundaon in

Tokyo. She has been working with a several publishing companies

and edited a number of books, mainly on English study guide.

Ari-Reda

AriReda is Reda Gaudiamo as the singer and Ari Malibu, a singer/

guitarist. They curate poetries and turn them into songs. AriRedaadapts poems from renowned poets like Toto Sudarto Bachar,

Sapardi Djoko Damono, Goenawan Mohamad. Aer the rst album

Becoming Dew, in October 2015 AriReda released their second

record tled Menyanyikan Puisi.


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Budi Darma

Budi Darma is one of Indonesia’s most inuenal writers. He won

several awards, among other things SEAWrite Award (Bangkok),

Satya Lencana Kebudayaan (President of the Republic of Indonesia),and Mastera Literary Award (Brunei Darussalam). At present Budi

Darma works as an Emeritus Professor, the Graduate School, UNESA

in addion to teaching and supervising student’s academic acvies,

he connued wring, and is involved in several literary and cultural

acvies, in Indonesia as well as overseas.

Chrisan Senda

Chrisan Senda was born in Mollo, Southeast Timor, on December

22. He Has wrien a number of books including a collecon of

poetry called Cerah Ha (Bright Heart, 2011), as well as short story

collecons called Kanuku Leon (2013), Hau Kamelin dan Tuan Kam-

lasi (Hau Kamelin and Mr. Kamlasi, 2015). He also has an upcoming

book called Sai Rai (Lelaki yang Meninggalkan Bumi) (Sai Rai, or the

Man who Leaves the Earth). Previously, he worked as a Guidanceand Counseling teacher for six years. He currently is acve in a

number of youth communies in Kupang, Southeast Timor, South

Nusa Tenggara including a lm community and the Kupang Bagarak

organizaon. In 2015, he founded the Santarang Literary Fesval and

Pakariang Fesval with his peers.

Clara Ng

Clara Ng was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. Graduated from Ohio

State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. She is an extraordinarily

imaginave writer who works in a variety of formats, wring novels

for adults, more than a dozen books for young readers of all ages

(including picture books for children) and a biography. She has been

nominated and received many literary awards for her children’s

books which have been translated and published in other countries.


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Dini Pandia

Dini was born on March 23, 1971. She graduated from Faculty of Let-ters of University of Indonesia and has been working at PT Gramedia

Pustaka Utama rst as a translator, and since 2002 as an editor.

She has translated books by John Grisham, James Paerson, Kate

DiCamillo, Roald Dahl and many more. She’s the editor of books by

John Green, Jonathan Stroud, Patrick Ness and non-English books

like Oeroeg, Rampokan, Heren van de thee (Dutch), Tinn (French),

Tintenherz trilogy, Der Boxer (German). Besides reading, Dini also

likes travelling, cooking, and watching movies. She’s married with

one daughter.

Dewi Lestari

Dewi Lestari, popularly known by her pen name, Dee Lestari, is one

of the front-runners in the modern Indonesian book scene. Dee

iniated her career in the music industry as a singer and a songwrit-er. As an author, she has published nine books, including the highly

ancipated Supernova series. Her works such as Madre (2005),

Rectoverso (2013), and Filoso Kopi (2013) are also adapted in lms.

Didik Siswantono

Didik Siswantono writes poems and essays for several newspapers

and journals in Indonesia. He worked as a journalist before seling

as one of the managers of Naonal Bank of Indonesia (BNI 46). He

founded literary communies KANUSA in Serpong, South Tangerang.

His new poetry book is “Pelajaran Berlari” - (Kepustakaan Populer

Gramedia, 2015)


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Dorothea Rosa Herliany

Dorothea Rosa Herliany is a writer who has published 30 books

comprising poetry, prose and biographies. She has received numer-

ous awards from the Jakarta Arts Council (2002), Jakarta LanguageCenter (2003), Indonesian Tourism and Culture Ministry (2004),

Kusala Khatuliswa Literary Award (2006 and 2016), Cempaka Award

(2011), Prasidatama (2014), and many others. She has also received

grants from Asialink and LaTrobe University (Australia, 2000),

Monash University (Australia, 2002), Heinrich Böll Sung (Jerman,

2009), Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (Jerman, 2013)

and Schng Poets of All Naons (Belanda, 2014).

Endy M. Bayuni

Endy M Bayuni is a senior editor at The Jakarta Post who has been

in the eld for over 32 year. He writes columns for the paper and

also for the New York Times and Strait Times of Singapore. Endy also

trains both journalists and non-journalists to improve their english

wring skill.

Faiza Mardzoeki

Faiza Mardzoeki is a playwright, director, producer, and acvist.Since 2002, Faiza has iniated and produced eleven theatre produc-

ons, some of which she wrote herself. Of these dramas, three will

be published as books in 2016. These are her adaptaons of Ibsen’s

A Dolls House, (Nora) and An Enemy of the People (Subversif!) to

be published by Djaman Baroe and her original play Nyanyi Sunyi

Kembang-Kembang Genjer (Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers) to be

published by Ulmus.


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Guntur Alam

Guntur Alam was born in Tanah Abang, Muara Enim, South Sumatra on

November 20, 1986 and graduated from the Civil Engineering Department

of the Islam 45 University in Bekasi, West Java. He was familiarized with lit-

erature through short stories. Since mid 2010, his works has been published

in various media outlets and periodicals such as Kompas, Koran Tempo,

Jawa Pos, Media Indonesia, Republika, Pikiran Rakyat, Suara Merdeka, Suara

Pembaruan, Seputar Indonesia, Lampung Post, Tribun Jabar, Radar Surabaya,

Femina, Gadis,and Esquire Indonesia, as well as Nova, among others. For four

years in a row (2011-2014), his short stories are shortlisted to Kompas daily’s

annual best-of compilaon. He was invited as a panelist at the 2012 Ubud

Writers and Readers Fesval. He has just published a gothic short story col-

lecon called Magi Perempuan dan Malam Kunang-Kunang (Women’s Magic

and Evening of Fireies; Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2015). Say Hi to him via

his Twier handle @AlamGuntur.

Febriana Firdaus

Febriana Firdaus is an editor and podcast producer for Ingat65. She

has wrien her essay about the disappearance of her grandfather in

the 1965 violence. Febriana is a journalist for Rappler Indonesia andformerly she was a reporter for Tempo. She loves to write undercov-

er stories related to corrupon, women’s issue, human rights, LGBT

rights and religion.

Gunawan Maryanto

Gunawan Maryanto who bases in Yogyakarta is a senior actor, poet

and director. He plays a leading role in a movie about legendary Poet

Wiji Thukul. The lm is slated to play in cinema later this year.


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Gina S. Aristo

Ha Trang Van

Gina S. Aristo is a script writer and founder of PlotPoint while she is

acve in sinedu.or.id.

Ha Trang Van is an intern at the delegaon of European Union to

Vietnam who also likes to do freelance copywring and write poetry

on the side. Graduated from the school of internaonal communi-

caon and culture of the Diplomac Academy of Vietnam, she was

born on April 5, 1993 in Haiphong, a port city in Vietnam where al-

most all men, including her father and grandfather, work for central

shipyard. In spite of very modest salary of a worker, her father was

always saving a small amount of money to buy books and newspa-pers for his family. Although her mother did not nish her secondary

school, she was the author’s rst literacy teacher who liked reading

poetry. Her dream is to give her mother her published work one day.

Hikmahanto Juwana

Prof. Hikmahanto Juwana, SH, LLM, Ph.D. served as a Senior Legal

Adviser to the Coordinang Minister for Economic Aairs from 1999

to 2001. He has been Professor of Law at the University of Indonesiasince 2001, and served as Dean of the faculty of Law from 2004 to

2008. He also teaches Law at several other prominent universies

in Indonesia and has been a vising professor at the University of

Melbourne, Naonal University of Singapore and Nagoya University,

Japan.


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Ika Krismantari

Ika Krismantari is the managing editor and a writer in Ingat65. She

shared her story of her discovery of a 50-years hidden family story

that her grandfather was a 1965 polical prisoner. Ika has beenworking for the leading English daily The Jakarta Post for 10 years.

She has a Master’s degree in journalism and internaonal relaons

from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. For her master’s de-

gree, Ika writes a thesis on alternave online media in Australia. The

thesis has won the best thesis in journalism category from Monash

University.

Ilya Sumanto

Illya Sumanto is a herbalist and Eco-feminist who has worked and

performed with powerful female poets around the world, to heal

through performing arts and spoken word. Illya is a part of Poetry

Café KL; a collecve that organizes poetry workshops, readings and

slams in Kuala Lumpur.

As an educator she specializes in working with young writers and

theatre performers- which she has trained, stage-craed, and writ-

ten for numerous in and out of school producons. Recently, the Ed-

ucaon Ministry of Malaysia has acknowledged her for her work as a

director and scriptwriter for children’s theater. She has also receiveda special award from University of Malaya for her achievements and

contribuons to eld of Educaon.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Jose Ramos-Horta is an ex-prime minister and ex-president of Timor

Leste who is know as an internaonal peacemaker. In 1996, José

Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work

toward a just and peaceful soluon to the conict in East Timor.”

While serving as President and the internaonal voice of the younggovernment, he personally created peace iniaves ranging from

a world class mountain bike “race for peace” to opening his oce

for youth from neighboring areas to come and peacefully resolve

conicts. His an-poverty iniaves, including building homes for

the neediest, lied tens of thousands out of extreme poverty. His

leadership and experse have walked Timor-Leste toward a new era

of peace, reconciliaon and economic growth. José Ramos-Horta’s

work in taking his country from devastang conict to peace and

economic growth in just over a decade serves as a model for build-

ing democracy in the twenty rst century. In 2012 he accepted an

appointment from the UN Secretary General as Special Represent-

ave of the Secretary General to the African naon of Guinea Bissau.


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John Waromi

Joko Pinurbo

John Waromi was born in Jayapura, Papua, on August 6, 1960 and grew up

there. He started to be involved in theater from a young age and parcipated

on the staging of two ancient Greek scripts, namely Oedipus and The Ritual

of Solomon’s Children in dierent countries like the United States, Japan and

South Korea. In 1993, he joined the AVEX mulmedia communicaon oce

in Jakarta and started wring in the Gorong-GorongBudaya(Sewage Culture)

in Depok, West Java, where he took part in various musical, theatrical as

well as cultural shows. At the end of 2001, he returned to his hometown and

started to conduct a research on shermen ulizing handmade dynamites

at the Humbolt bay, Jayapura. He has been invited to the Ubud Writers

Fesval a number of mes. In 2011, in cooperaon with the Hana studio,

he launched a poetry collecon called Sulur-SulurSali(Sali’s Vines). During

the same year, he collaborated with Saritasku Bali to publish a book called

AnggadiTupa.

Joko Pinurbo, or beer known as Jokpin, was born on May 11, 1962 in

Palabuhanratu, Sukabumi, Jawa Barat. He currently lives in Yogyakarta. Grad-

uated from the Sanata Dharma University (previously the school of Educaon

and Teacher Science Instute) in Yogyakarta, he spent some me to teach

in his alma mater and work at a publishing company. He has been wring

poetry since senior high school. His reputaon as a poet was established

with the launching of his poetry collecon book Celana (Pants, 1999), whichprecipitated the publicaon of other poetry collecon books. His latest books

include Surat Kopi (Coee Leer, 2014) and Selamat Menunaikan Ibadah Pu-

isi – Sehimpun Puisi Pilihan (Wishing You a Happy Poetry Ritual – A Selecon

of Poems, 2016). He has received many awards from the Jakarta Arts Center

(2001), Lontar Foundaon (2001), Tempo weekly’s literary gure of the

year (2001, 2012), Kusala Sastra Khatuliswa (2005, 2015), Southeast Asian

(SEA) Write Award (2014). A number of his poems have been translated into

English and German.

John H. McGlynnJohn H. McGlynn, originally from Wisconsin (USA), is a long-term resident of

Jakarta where, in 1987, he established the Lontar Foundaon, the only or-

ganizaon in the world devoted to the publicaon of Indonesian literature in

translaon. Through Lontar, he has overseen the publicaon of close to two

hundred books on Indonesian literature and culture. John is the Indonesia

country editor for Manoa, a literary journal published by the University of

Hawaii and a contribung editor of the Words Without Borders and Ameri-

can Asian Writer’s Workshop, two other American literary journals. He is also

a trustee of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundaon, which

oversees the Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia.


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Laura Romano

Laura Romano has studied the language and the culture of the island

and in the late eighes graduated in Philosophy with a dissertaon

on Javanese Myscism. In her work one can sense the personal

experience of the author, nourished by the meditaon pracce that

since the beginning of her stay in Java she was introduced to and

trained in, in the almost daily meengs with the many masters then

sll alive. Her book, entled “Sumarah”, talks about a philosophy, a

way of life and a form of meditaon originang from Java.

Julian McMahon

A human rights advocate and erce opponent of the death penalty, barrister

Julian McMahon has a personal and passionate commitment to represent

Australians in capital punishment cases abroad. Admied to the Victorian Bar

in 1998, for more than 13 years Julian has worked without payment for Aus-

tralians facing the death penalty. Julian’s clients include Van Tuong Nguyen

in Singapore, George Forbes in Sudan and members of the Bali Nine, Andrew

Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. In the months leading up to the execuons of

Chan and Sukumaran in April 2015, the overwhelming demands of their case

required Julian and other lawyers on the case to make many personal sac-

rices and, in Julian’s case, to exclude all other work. Instead, he remained

wholly focused on his clients. Julian is on the board of Jesuit Social Services

and is now President of Reprieve Australia. Arculate and measured, with

longstanding community involvement, Julian speaks publicly about the death

penalty and jusce issues.

Krisan Sendon Cordero

Described as the enfant terrible of Bikol contemporary wrings, KRISTIAN

SENDON CORDERO is a poet, conist, essayist, translator, lmmaker and an

academic. He has ve poetry collecons in Filipino and Bikol. He has won the

country’s top literary prizes including the Maningning Miclat Poetry Prize, the

Madrigal Gonzales Best First Book Award, the NCCA Writers Prize and several

Palancas. His most recent collecons are Cancos: Apat Na Boses (University

of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013) and Labi (Ateneo de Manila Universi-ty Press, 2013) which both won the Naonal Book Awards in 2014. He has

edited/coedited two landmark anthologies of Bikol contemporary poetry:

Sagurong: Sanggatos na Rawitdawit sa Manlain-lain na Bikol (DLSU Academic

Publishing House/Vibal, 2011) with the literary scholar Paz Verdades Santos

and An Samuyang Kakanon Sa Aroaldaw/Ang Aming Biyaya Sa Araw-Araw

(as editor and translor) published under the Aklat ng Bayan Series by the

Naonal Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Komisyon Sa Wikang

Filipino. His upcoming tle includes the Filipino translaon of Oscar Wilde’s

The Picture of Dorian Gray, (KWF, 2016) and his rst book of stories in Filipino

and Bikol, Kulto ni Sanago (University of the Philippines Press, 2016).


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Leila S. Chudori

Leila Salikha Chudori known to her readers as Leila S.Chudori, is an Indone-

sian author who has wrien short stories since a young age, a best-selling

novel, and a television series. Her rst anthology of short stories Malam Tera-

khir (Pustaka Utama Gra, 1989) was translated into German language (Die

Letzte Nacht, published by Horlemann Verlag, 1991) and some of her short

stories were published in English in Menagerie, a collecon of Indonesian

literary work published by Lontar Foundaon. Her later work, “9 dari Nadira”

(2009) was awarded Penghargaan Sastra Badan Bahasa Indonesia.

At the end of of 2012, Leila launched her novel Pulang (Home) , published by

Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia in Goethe Instute, Jakarta.

“Pulang” won Khatuliswa Literary Award for Best Prose 2013 and has been

translated into French (published by Pasar Malam), English (published by

Lontar Foundaon for Southeast Asia and Deep Vellum for the US); Dutch

(published by De Geus) and German (published by Weidle Verlag).

Leila has been working as a journalist with Tempo News Magazine since

1989.

Low Kok Wai

Low Kok Wai is an arts educator and theatre director whose interests include

Southeast Asian theatre, intercultural performances, community theatre and

theatre/drama studies for higher educaon. He has performed extensively

in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka on a four-city tour of Beauty World

1992; Perth, Australia, for the 4th Abilympics 1995; Mumbai and Chennai,

India, as part of the internaonal dance drama Buddhavatara, 2003; Tunis,

Tunisia, in a mul-disciplinary performance entled Streets Called Home

that premiered at the United Naon’s World Summit for Informaon Society

2005. He has also conducted workshops at the 5th Athens Internaonal

Theatre/Drama and Performing Arts Educaon Conference, 2006(Athens);

and IDEA 2007: the 6th World Congress of Internaonal Drama/Theatre and

Educaon Associaon, Hong Kong. In 2011, he presented one paper each

at the 6th ATEC Internaonal Forum, Beijing, 18 to 21 May, and at the NAFA

Symposium, Singapore, 19 to 21 September. Besides his arsc-scholarly

work, he has been volunteering as a theatre director/educator with people

with intellectual disabilies for 15 years. He recently completed his thesis in

Performance studies and is currently a lecturer for drama and theatre studies

at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universi Brunei Darussalam.

Maesy Angelina

Maesy Angelina works on research and innovaon for women em-

powerment during the week and on weekends runs an independent

bookshop called POST in one of the tradional markets in Jakarta.

She writes travel stories and has published a book called ‘The Dusty

Sneakers: Kisah Kawan di Ujung Sana’, co-wrien by Teddy W. Kusu-

ma.


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Mary FarrowMary Farrow is an American writer, editor and acvist who currently

lives in Australia. She is the director of the Centre of Resilience, Em-

erald Community House in Victoria. As a community development

praconer, Mary is a regular speaker at government events and

academic instuons on the importance of empowering communi-

es through educaon, social challenge, human rights, freedom of

expression and creave pracce through the arts.

Maman Suherman

Marco Stahlhut

Maman Suherman is a producer of many successful TV programs,

most notably “Indonesia Lawak Club”. He is also a writer of a num-

ber of books, and acve eort to distribute books to isolated areas,called “Perahu Pustaka.”

Marco Stahlhut has been working as a DAAD-lecturer (German

Academic Exchange Service) at Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta,

since September 2014. Starng then he has tried to read as much

Indonesian literature, rst in English, then in Bahasa Indonesia, as he

could reasonably manage. Mr. Stahlhut’s Brish Master in Compar-

ave Literature at the University of East Anglia was supervised by

the famous German writer W.G. Sebald. Mr. Stahlhut also holds a

Master and a PhD from Free University of Berlin, Germany, wherehe worked for some years, before moving on to the German-French

TV staon ARTE. Apart from his academic work Marco Stahlhut con-

tributes arcles to the German naonal daily newspaper Frankfurter

Allgemeine Zeitung. For this paper he also wrote a series of arcles

about Indonesian literature and culture before the Frankfurt Book

Fair last year when Indonesia was guest of honour.


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Najeela Shihab

Najelaa Shihab from Keluarga Kita and Sekolah Cikal is a psychologist

and iniator of sinedu.or.id.

Nguyen Le Chi

Nguyen Le Chi is a Vietnamese writer, publisher and journalist. She is

founder and CEO of CHIBOOKS publishing company. Nguyen Le Chi,

who had lots of experience in publishing industry, used to be a Cop-

yright Department Manager and Deputy Director of Publishing at

Phuong Nam Cultural Corporaon (From May 2005 to January 2008)

and Publishing Manager at Mekong Com Corp. (Vinabook) (from

February 2008 to December 2008). She is among the rst people

who bought foreign copyrights to Vietnam, especially introducingChinese mordern literature to Viet nam.

Nirwan Dewanto

Nirwan Dewanto is a poet, curator, and cultural cric. He had re-

leased a collecon of essays entled Senjakala Kebudayaan, a poetry

anthology Buku Cacing, and won the Khatuliswa Award in 2008 forhis poetry anthology Jantung Ratu Lebah.


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Okky Madasari

Okky Madasari won Khatuliswa Literary Award (KLA) for her novel

Maryam (2012) which revolves around people who are displaced

due to their beliefs and then banned into exile. Maryam has beentranslated into English under the tle The Outcast (2014). Her rst

novel, Entrok (2010) which tells a story about military dominance

during Indonesia’s New Order Era, has been translated also into

English language with the tle The Years of The Voiceless (2013).

Her other novels are 86 (2011) which raises the problems of massive

corrupon in Indonesia today and Pasung Jiwa (2013) has been

translated under tle Bound which touches freedom of the individ-

ual within the contemporary Indonesia. For three consecuve years

from 2011-2013, her novels were shortlisted in the Khatuliswa

Literary Awards.

Oudom Heng

HENG Oudom is a Cambodian writer. He has wrien around more than thirty

shorts stories which some of them were published and received a literacy

prize. “I repeat a level”, his rst short story received the second place prize

from Nou Hach literature associaon in 2011, translated and published twice

in 2013 and in 2014. In 2012, his two short stories were published as a collec-

on of co-author, tle “The gi for Valente’s day”.

Early 2013, Oudom won the sixth place prize of essay compeon “Youthvoice on good governance of Extracves Industries” organized by Oxfam

Cambodia and Norton University of Cambodia. In June 2013, his short novel,

“My father’s experiences” won the rst place prize for naonal compeon

from Khmer Youth Associaon and Ministry of woman aairs. In the end of

2013, “Negoate”, his story that describe the war in the border was pub-

lished in a book collecon for keys to young writers.

Oudom HENG got the ASEAN Young Writer award from SEA-Write in Bang-

kok, Thailand in 2015.

Oppie Andaresta

Oppie Andaresta is a singer and a songwriter. She has released

six albums since 1993. Her composions are not only about love

songs but also a few dbits of crique about everyday issues. One

of her songs entled Cank dan Seksi is talking about the narrow

denion of women’s beauty that is limited to their physical at-

tracveness. She writes this kind of song to break exisng mindset

about parcular topic.


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Päivi Hiltunen-Toivio

Päivi Hiltunen-Toivio is the Finnish Ambassador to Indonesia. She

intends to concentrate on very praccal and concrete grass-root

projects in Indonesia in human development. This includes organiz-ing workshops, talking about women’s rights and training people in

developing new skills to become more condent in the society.

Peter Carey

Dr. Peter Carey is an award winning Brish historian and author who

specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in parcular and

has also wrien on East Timor and Burma. He has wrien several

books on the Prince Diponegoro, including Babad Diponegoro:

An Account of the Outbreak of the Java War as well as a biography

of the Prince. His latest release, “Perempuan Jawa” (Javanese

Women).

Prigadi Abdi Surya

Pringadi Abdi Surya was born in Palembang, August 18, 1988 and

now lives in Bandung, West Java. Now he is working as a civil servantat the accounng general directorate. He has an upcoming book

called Phi. His daily thoughts can be traced at Twier handle @

pringadi_as and his personal blog catatanpringadi.com.


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Puri Lestari

Puri Lestari, the granddaughter of Soetoyo Siswomihardjo, one of

the slain generals, vicms of the 30th September Movement, joined

Ingat65 as a writer. Her essay tells her story of searching for truth

and how along the way she discovered more than just her family

history. The essay explored the possibility of a naonal apology for

atrocies following G30s and using the incident as instrument of

fear during the New Order regime. She is trained as an architect and

an avid scuba dive enthusiast.

Qurotul Ain Bandial

Ain Bandial is a journalist with The Brunei Times, an English-lan-

guage daily in Bandar Seri Begawan. She writes on a wide range of

issues related to ASEAN, including foreign policy, law, human rights,

and religion. In 2012, she was selected to parcipate in the Edward

R. Murrow program for journalists during the US presidenal elec-

ons. Ain has travelled across the region during her reporng career

and is currently working on a book of essays on her experiences.

Prodita Sabarini

Prodita Sabarini is the iniator and chief editor of Ingat65, a volun-

teer-based digital storytelling movement for the young generaon of

Indonesia to remember 1965 violence. Prodita works as the Jakartaeditor for The Conversaon. She was the 2013-2014 Elizabeth

Neuer Fellow, of which she was based at MIT Center for Intenaon-

al Studies and interned at the Boston Globe and New York Times.

Prodita was a sta reporter for the English daily The Jakarta Post

between 2005-2013. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights

Law and Policy from University of New South Wales.


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Rafendi Djamin is the director of Amnesty Internaonal Southeast

Asia and the Pacic.He has served as the Representave for Indone-

sia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights(AICHR), the only regional human rights mechanism in Asia-Pacic.

Rafendi has also served as an Execuve Director for an Indonesian

Human Rights NGO Coalion. He is on the board of a number of

naonal and global rights organizaons – including the Centre for

Civil and Polical Rights (CCPR).

Rafendi Djamin

Ridhwan Saidi

Ridhwan Saidi born in 1984 is a Malaysian author of seven books:

Cekik (2011), Amerika (2011), Mautopia (2012), Stereo Genmai

(2012), Babyrina (2014), Brazil (2015) & Holokos (2016). Some of

the recurring themes Ridhwan explores are dreams, memory and

mystery.

Rio Johan

Rio Johan, an avid lover of books, lms, and video games. He has a

bachelor degree from Universitas Sebelas Maret, majoring in Chem-

ical Engineering. His short story collecon, Aksara Amananunna,

debuted in 2014. It was longlisted in Kusala Sastra Khatulistwa 2014

and picked as the Best Prose Book of 2014 by Tempo Magazine.


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Sapardi Djoko Darmono

Sapardi Djoko Damono is a poet who is widely regarded as the

pioneer of lyrical poetry in Indonesia. Sapardi’s poems have become

inspiraon behind several musical composions such as pianist

Ananda Sukarlan. One of his notorious works published in 1994,

Hujan Bulan Juni, has just been re-published as a novel and adult

coloring book.

Saras DewiAs an Indonesia’s rising scholar and woman acvist, Saras Dewi is

currently the head of philosophy department at the University of

Indonesia. She is also a singer and dancer.

Sanaz Fotouhi

Sanaz Fotouhi is an Iranian-Australian writer, lmmaker and scholar living in

Melbourne, Australia. She is interested in diasporic and world literatures in

English, which was the topic of her PhD thesis. Her book The Literature of

the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identy since the Revoluon (I.B Tauris,

2015) focuses on Iranian wring in English over the last three and half

decades.

Sanaz has also co-produced a mul-award feature documentary lm, Love

Marriage in Kabul (2014), set in Afghanistan. Her experiences of travelling to

Afghanistan and making a lm with a two-member crew will be published in

a travelogue/memoir in early 2017 (Transit Lounge).

As a creave writer she has had her short stories published in anthologies

in Australia, and Hong Kong. The unpublished manuscript for her mul-fac-

eted socio-historical novel Scent of Sousan and Yasaman about the Iranian

migratory experience was shortlisted for the Debora Cass literary prize in

Melbourne in 2015.

Sanaz is currently the assistant execuve director for the Asia Pacic Writers

and Translators (APWT), an organizaon that brings together and showcases

the works of writers and translators in the Asia Pacic Region.


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Sebasan Partogi

Sebasan Partogi, born on August 23, 1989, graduated from Atma

Jaya Catholic University Jakarta’s School of Psychology, concentrang

on Societal and Community Psychology, in January 2011. He hasbeen working as a reporter for The Jakarta Post daily since 2013,

previously worked as a Psychology and Indonesian Literature teacher

for the Gandhi Memorial Internaonal School Jakarta (2011-2012).

He started reading works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Ayu Utami

at the age of 13. The real strong drive to write con, however, origi-

nated at the age of 14 immediately aer reading the works of Djenar

Maesa Ayu, with their very strong depicon of human psychological

trauma and its complicaons, with which the writer as a young teen-

ager related to on a visceral level. His works have been published by

magdalene.co, an independent website focusing on feminism anddiversity issues.

Stephanie Ye

Stephanie Ye is the author of the chapbook The Billion Shop (2012)

and the editor of the short con anthology From the Belly of the

Cat(2013), both published by Math Paper Press in Singapore. Her

work has been staged as a dance performance in New York City,

translated into German for an art exhibion in Berlin, and used as

an O-level examinaon text in Singapore. She graduated from the

MA in Creave Wring (Prose) programme at the University of East

Anglia in 2014, where she held a UEA Creave Wring Internaonal

Scholarship and won the Weidenfeld & Nicolson Best of UEA Short

Story Award. An honorary fellow in wring of the University of Iowa

via the Internaonal Wring Program, she is a recovering journalist.

Sujiwo TejoSujiwo Tejo is an ex-journalist now known as a multalented arst.

He writes books, performs as an actor and a puppet master, com-

poses songs, draws pictures and also directs lms. His wring works

include Lupa Endonesa (2012), Lupa Endonesa Deui (2014), Rahvaya-

na ‘Aku Lala Padamu’ (2014).


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Valent Mustamin

Valent Mustamin started a non-for-prot literary project, idwriters.

com, a site devoted to showcasing Indonesian writers and/or book

authors, along with their publicaons, journals, and other literary

resources in English in 2014. He’s now working in one of digital com-

municaons agency in Jakarta.

Triyanto Triwikromo

Triyanto Triwikromo won the award of ‘Tokoh Seni Pilihan Tempo

2015’ for his book Kemaan Kecil Kartosoewirjo. This book was also

in the shortlist of Kusala Sastra Khatuliswa 2014-2015. Meanwhile,his work entled Surga Sungsang was in the top ve list of Kusala

Sastra Khatuliswa 2013-2014. And his collecon of short stories

Ular di Mangkuk Nabi got awarded in Penghargaan Sastra 2009 Pu-

sat Bahasa. His books A Conspiracy of God-killers, The Serpent in The

Holy Grail, and Upside-Down Heaven were in the Frankfurt Book Fair

2015 where Indonesia became the guest of honor in the book fair.

In 2005 and 2007, Triyanto parcipated in Utan Kayu Internaonal

Literary Bienale. He was also a parcipant in Wordstorm: Northern

Territory Writers Fesval and in January-February 2008 he was a part

of Gang Fesval and a literature residency in Sydney, Australia.


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Zelia Vital

Zelia Vital is a Timorese woman who loves reading various con and

non-con storybooks, novels, short stories since she was young unl today.

She lives in Dili, Timor-Leste and works for an internaonal development

agency and studying for graduate course in Development study at a local

university in Dili, Timor-Leste.

Her rst wring skill was performed when she studied in grade 8 of elemen-

tary School at a local wring compeon held by local catholic church in

Lospalos to write a short personal opinion about Timor-Leste Independence

in 2002 which gained a Third Prize Award.

While studying in local university in Baucau in 2006-2009, she rediscovered

her passion for wring and tried to write a short existenal reecon story

tled ‘AikasiniaHahusuk’ (Flamboyant tree’s Queson) to a local Catholic

Church monthly bullen named FINI LOROSA’E in 2008. In 2012, she won

The First Prize Award of Best Tetum Story and Best Female Tetum Story

Writer from Timor-Aid Tetum Story Wring compeon in 2012 for her

mini-novel Tetum story tled ‘KnananukihaAkamutu’ (A Song in Akamutu)

which published by Timor-Aid NGO in 2013 in Dili as her rst published

mini-novel. She connued to post her wring works via online plaorm

aerward and keeps developing her creave wring skills. In 2013, she par-

cipated again in the Timor-Aid Tetum Story Wring compeon with story

tled ‘DiariuDobenDiakkaLae?’ (Dear Diary How Are You?) without winning

any award but in 2014 she won Second Prize Award of Best Tetum Story and

Best Female Tetum Story Writer from the same compeon for a mini novel

story tled ‘Dália.’

Zen Hae

Zen Hae writes poetry, short stories, literary cricism and linguisc essays.

Born in Jakarta on April 12, 1970, he graduated from the Indonesian Litera-

ture and Language department of Jakarta’s Teacher and Educaon Science

Academy (now renamed as Jakarta State University) in 1994 and, upon

graduaon, worked as a journalist unl 1994. In 2006, he was chosen as a

member of the Jakarta Arts Council for its literary commiee unl 2013.

Since February 2012 to now, he has been working as a publicaon manager

at the Komunitas Salihara cultural center in South Jakarta. His short story col-

lecon The Red Bowl and Other Stories has just been published as a trilingualedion, comprising Indonesian, English and German translaons by Lontar

in 2015. Other works include Rumah Kawin (House of Intercourses, KataKita,

2004),Paus Merah Jambu (Pink Whale; AKAR Indonesia, 2007). His works are

also included in various anthologies including Out of Ubud (Lontar and Ubud

Writers and Readers Fesval, 2014), Narasi 34 Jam (34-Hour Narraon; KSI,

2001),Datang dari Masa Depan (Arrived from the Future; Pesta Sastra Tasik,

1999), Pemintal Ombak (Wave Weaver; Sanggar Purbacaraka Bali, 1996) and

Sayong (Sanggar Minum Kopi, Bali, 1994). His works have been printed in

various mass media outlets, periodicals and journals such as Kompas, Koran

Tempo, Republika, Media Indonesia, Horison, Latudes, Esquire, Djakarta,

Kalam, Asia Literary Review, and Words Without Borders.


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