Sitor situmorang biography of albert

  • Recently the Indonesian poet, novelist and essayist Sitor Situmorang reached the age of eighty.
  • His life story ran parallel with radical changes in Indonesian society.
  • SITOR SITUMORANG: HIS LIFE.

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    Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches (4th edition) 9789814620512

    Table of contents :
    Contents
    Preface to the Fourth Edition (2015)
    INTRODUCTION
    LIST OF PROMINENT INDONESIAN CHINESE
    Biographies
    Abbreviations and Glossary
    Select bibliography
    INDEX

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    Prominent Indonesian Chinese

    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of sociopolitical, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued more than 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast

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    Around the Independence Day of Indonesia (17 August) and the Cinema Indonesia programme of WCA, NPO 2 extra has compiled a programme of five films:

    Wed 14 August | 20:30
    Die Before Blossom - Ariani Djalal, 2014, 89’, documentary
    Almost seventy years after Indonesia's independence, the education system fryst vatten increasingly determined by Islamic values.

    Wed 21 August | 20:30
    Stand van de Sterren - Leonard Retel Helmrich, 2010, 109', documentary
    Documentary about the daglig life of Rumidja Sjamsuddin and her family in a slum in huvudstad i indonesien, Indonesia.

    Sat 24 August | 19:30
    Van Indië tot Indonesië - John Albert Jansen, 2009, 59’, documentary
    Portrait of the Indonesian writer Sitor Situmorang. His life story ran parallel with radical changes in Indonesian kultur. In 2009, filmmaker John Albert Jansen traveled with Situmorang to his birthplace at Lake Toba, Sumatra.

    Sat 24 August | 20:30 
    The Seen and Unseen - Kamila Andini, 2017, 83’
    Feature film from WCA's Cinema Indonesia-pro

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    The Motif Of Si Anak Hilang in the Poetry Of Sitor Situmorang

    THE MOTIF OF SI ANAK HILANG IN THE POETRY OF SITOR SITUMORANG Alle G. Hoekema Abstract: Recently the Indonesian poet, novelist and essayist Sitor Situmorang reached the age of eighty. Situmorang has a Christian background; his origins are to be found in the Batak area in North Sumatra. His life and work have been summarized as ‘to love, to wander’; in a way he has been a perennial wanderer and pilgrim, roaming around in many places of the world and being home, finally, in his poems. Part of his life he spent in prison as a political detainee. In this article we analyse the motif of ‘the lost [prodigal] son’ which occurs no less than four times in Situmorang’s lyrical work, each time in a different context and with a different meaning. Connected with the role of the father and the mother and of a deep longing for his native village, this motif forms an important thread in his poetry, which often has religious allusions. I

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