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The Pilgrim
The Pilgrim is one of the most unusual novels to have ever been published in Indonesia. It is a complex mixture, uniting a poetic lyricism with medita ...
Telegram
Putu Wijaya's novel Telegram, published in 1973, has been heralded as a milestone in Indonesian fiction and as a trendse ...
Shackles
Doctor Sukartono, able and devoted to his work, and his wife, Tini, a beautiful and independent woman, find their marriage devoid of communication and ...
Mirah of Banda
Kidnapped from Java, along with her older cousin, five year-old Mirah is taken to the Banda islands where she spends the rest of her life on a nutmeg ...
And the War is Over
The final days of World War II serve as the backdrop for this novel by Ismail Marahimin. Fighting has not reached the small Sumatran village of Tarata ...
The Fall and the Heart
The Fall and the Heart by S. Rukiah is one of the lesser known classics of the Indonesian revolutionary era and arguably the strongest piece of prose ...
Never the Twain
The novel Salah Asuhan, translated here as Never the Twain, is among the most popular works of modern Indonesian fiction. Fir ...
Supernova: The Knight, The Princess and the Falling Star
Supernova: The Knight, The Princess and the Falling Star presents a series of intertwined and unconventional love stories, straight and gay, with a bi ...
Sitti Nurbaya: a love unrealized
First published in 1922, the novel Sitti Nurbaya: A Love Unrealized, by Marah Rusli, retains the poignancy that made it a modern Indonesian classic. I ...
Earth Dance
Earth Dance, the story of four generations of Balinese women, centers on conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires.Narrat ...
Drought
Drought is a joyous celebration of life and human commitment. Its hero is an ex-student, ex-soldier and ex-bandit, who decides to transmigrate to one ...
The Rape of Sukreni
Violence, money, and melodrama—these are the volatile ingredients of The Rape of Sukreni. Written in the 1930s by A.A. Panji Tisna, a prince of the B ...
Fireflies in Manhattan
Born in Ngawi, East Java, in 1932, Umar Kayam obtained his masters degree from New York University and his doctoral degree from Cornell University. It ...
Jazz, Perfume & the Incidents
On November 12, 1991, the Indonesian military opened fire on East Timorese protestors in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Hundreds of people were kill ...
The dancer
A trilogy of novels set in tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, The Dancer describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. ...
Before Dawn
Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of IndonesiaÂ’s most productive and popular poets first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid-1950s. Befo ...
Javanese Gentry
Javanese Gentry (Para Priyayi, 1992) depicts the implicit concerns of a variety of characters for whom the attainment of that higher status is for mos ...
The Saga of Siti Mariah
The Saga of Siti Mariah, a translation of Hikayat Siti Mariah by Haji Mukti, a largely unknown author in the history of modern Indonesian literature, ...
The Rose of Cikembang
First published in 1927 as Bunga Roos dari Tjikembang, Kwee Tek Hoay's The Rose of Cikembang is an excellent example of the so-called peranakan l ...
Twilight in Jakarta
The first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English translation, Twilight in Jakarta contains a grim cast of characters: corrupt politicians, i ...
Twilight in Jakarta
The first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English translation, Twilight in Jakarta contains a grim cast of characters: corrupt politicians, i ...
Cundamanik
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Kepompong
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Para priyayi
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Kifli
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Manusia kamar
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Buku harian seorang penganggur
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Hitam atas putih
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Lajar terkembang
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Srigoenting
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Djalan jang tak kunjung datar
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Kisah-kisah zaman revolusi
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Terang bulan terang di kali
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Dua ibu
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The circus
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Canting
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Malam bimbang
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Djalan terbuka
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Hati membadja
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Di bumi aku bersua di langit aku bertemu
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... Oh, film
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1949
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Batu serampok
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Dosa kita semua
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Sanu
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Api rindu
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Pentas
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Godlob
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Godlob
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Adam Ma"rifat
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Olenka
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Rafilus
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Olenka
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Djokja diduduki
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Isteri konsul
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Segi dan garis
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Turleries
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Liar
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Hati yang damai
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Langit dan bumi sahabat kami
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Jalan bandungan
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Keberangkatan
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Namaku Hiroko
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Jang berontak dan jang menjerah
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Orang rantai dari silungkang
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Lembah maut
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Angin musim
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Tuan gendrik
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Isabel blumenkol
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Sepi terasing
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Dan terhamparlah darat yang kuning, laut yang biru...
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Warisan
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Gadis modern
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Tanah kesajangan
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Datang malam
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Di luar dugaan
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Anggia Murni
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Hulubalang radja
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Tjobaan
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Djangir Bali
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Moetiara
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Pemberontakan, bukan perang
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Seusai petang
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Seribu kunang-kunang di Manhattan
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Sri Sumarah dan cerita pendek lainnya
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Tusuk sanggul pundak wangi
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Dilarang mencintai bunga-bunga
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Pengembara sunyi
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Mendung
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Rumah besar
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Durga umayi
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Arjuna wiwahahaha (Arjuna vs Arjuna)
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Perahu revolusi
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Atheis
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Suropati
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Salah asuhan
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Salah asuhan
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Dendang novel
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Bako roman
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Pulang
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Kemarau
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Saraswati, Si gadis dalam sunyi
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Bianglala
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Bianglala
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Kemarau
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Opera Jakarta
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Tiga kota
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Rasa sajange
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Hujan kepagian
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Belenggu
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Aku dan Toba
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Doa perkabungan
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Oleng-kemoleng
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Tebing terjal
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Kisah-kisah perang gerilya
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Widijawati
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Malam putih kumpulan cerpen
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Mirah dari Banda
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Upacara
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Perampok
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Anak tanah air secerah kisah
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Sebuah rumah buat hari tua
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Siti Nurbaya
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Perdjuangan dan hati perempuan
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Masa bergolak
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Kalau tak untung
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Kalau tak untung
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Pengaruh keadaan
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Surga di bumi
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Astiti Rahayu
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Merahnya merah
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Merahnya merah
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Koong kisah tentang seekor perkutut
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Ziarah
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Kering
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Ziarah
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Kugapai cintamu
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Djedjak langkah
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Harmoni
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Bintang-bintang
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Bintang-bintang
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Telepon
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Rapar
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Pangeran
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Danau Toba
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Umi Kalsum dan tjerita-tjerita pendek lainnya
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Sakerah
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Mentjari pentjuri anak perawan
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Si Sapar
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Orang-orang sial
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Tambera
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Patah tumbuh hilang berganti
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Keringat mutiara
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Menanti kekasih dari Mekkah
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Centini (suluk tambanglaris)
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Penghuni pohon
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Jang terempas dan terkandas
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Hati wanita
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Cing cay la
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Djanda liar
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Tunas-tunas luruh selagi tumbuh
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Ni Rawit, ceti penjual orang
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I swasta setahun di Bedahulu
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Tjerita tjalon orang anak-anak umur 14-16 tahun
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Korupsi
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Perburuan
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Perburuan
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Perburuan
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Arus balik
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Keluarga gerilya
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Keluarga gerilya
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Keluarga gerilya
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Sekali peristiwa di Banten Selatan
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Midah: si manis bergigi emas
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Senyum Karmin
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Kubah
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Kisah-kisah revolusi sebuah kumpulan
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Peristiwa peristiwa ibukota pendudukan
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Djamal
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Sepanjang rintisan pembangunan
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Sebening kaca
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Keok
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Gres
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Protes
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Pabrik
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Pol
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Bila malam bertambah malam
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Teror
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Stasiun
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Perang
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Telegram
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Pergolakan
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Pertengkaran
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Bu guru Dwisari
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Rissa
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Api 26
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Si Kabayan dan beberapa dongeng Sunda lainnya
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Teuku Hassan Djohan pahlawan
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Tempo doeloe
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Byar pet
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Merdeka
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Bukan karena kau
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Kroco
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Abal-abal
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Lambo
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Manusia bebas
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Adik tentara
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Nayla
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Nyoman Sulastri
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Lampuki
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Lanang
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Anak rembulan
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Senapan cinta
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Anak arloji
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Roro mendut
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Candik ala 1965
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Bisik-bisik
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Na Willa
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Pasung jiwa
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Saru-Siku
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Cundamanik
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Kepompong
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Diary corrumpere
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Bumi Sambhara
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Taman api
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Cakra Punarbhawa
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Seperti dendam, rindu harus dibayar tuntas
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Aku angin, engkaulah samudra
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The years of the voiceless
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Daun putri malu
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Maryam
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Memang jodoh
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Home
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Lauh mahfuz
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Rahwayana
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Burung terbang di kelam malam
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Citra Rashmi
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Aku angin engkaulah samudra
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Anggadi tupa
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Above the day below the night
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Gadis Pakarena
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Sabda Palon
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Sabda Palon
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The Magician
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The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories. Vol 2: The New Order and Beyond, 1965-2000
Volume 2 of The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories presents 61 stories dating from the founding of the New Order government that followed &l ...
The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories. Vol 1: Pre-Independence to 1965
The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories: Short Fiction from the Twentieth Century, a two-volume collection, is the first definitive anthology ...
A student named Hijo: novel
A Student Named Hijo has been recognized for depicting a new Indonesian youth culture that has adopted Western cultural and lingual facets. By contras ...
A conspiracy of God-Killers
The poetically-crafted stories found in this collection are leavened with sardonic wit, a touch of the absurd, and the bizarre in a world gone mad. A ...
The story of Kadiroen
In the early 1910s, Semaoen was sentenced to prison for sedition by the Dutch colonial government. The Story of Kadirun, a semi-autobiographical novel ...
If fortune does not favor
If Fortune Does Not Favor offers a unique perspective on the complex situation <br />
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of Indonesian women during the pre- independe ...
Oh, oh, oh!
Idrus’s best known collection of stories, Dari Ave Maria ke Jalan Lain ke Roma, from which most of the stories in this anthology were drawn, was ...
The Atheist
The Atheist, first published in 1949, portrays the spiritual and intellectual crisis of Hasan, a young Muslim who was raised to be devout but comes to ...
To Love To Wander
The 1953 publication of Sitor Situmorang’s Green Paper Letters pegged him as a rising poet. Six decades later, the writer was still active. The m ...
Departures
The Eurasian character, Elisa is determined to find a place in society where she belongs. With almost no knowledge of her past or ancestry, Elisa is s ...
The Weaverbirds
A landmark novel when first published, The Weaverbirds is a tale of physical and spiritual struggles. The story spans the formative days of Indonesian ...
Ceremony
A coming-of-age tale, a tapestry of erotic and tragic liaisons, a dreamscape of nightmare and wonders. Ceremony is, above all, a tribute to the ceremo ...
Raumanen
Raumanen, a prize-winning novel by Marianne Katoppo, tells the story of Monang, a handsome but wayward Batak man, and Raumanen, a young Minahasa woman ...
Encounters
The subject of Toeti Heraty’s poetry ranges from human encounters in an age of conceit to the confessions of an ever-restless soul. Many of Toeti ...
Pariyem's Confession
Pariyem’s Confession is a long poem written in the first person–in the voice of a woman. It tells the story of a woman from a rural area who ...
Conversations
Budi Darma’s stories are absurdist and surreal. Often in conversation form, they draw content from mythology, legends, and fables. There is an om ...
Sermon on the Mount
Sermon on the Mount is the story of one man’s spiritual fulfillment. The story <br />
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is told through the eyes of Barman, an o ...
