Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts

Jun 3, 2013

Lost

By Sitok Srengenge

today
a wiseman
write a freedom lyrics
that he dreamed yesterday

tomorrow morning
he will sing
a freedom lyrics
that he wrote today

day after tomorrow
he wanted to paint freedom
which he sang the morning
that he wrote today
that he dreamed yesterday

The next day
he did not paint
not sing
do not write
even
not daydream

he lost
until
today

1997
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Sitok Srengenge. A poet.

Jul 19, 2012

Red Lines in Rijswijk

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Price Rp 57 500,-

"Red Lines in Rijswijk" - "Garis Merah di Rijswijk"

Author: Ilham Q Moehiddin

Synopsis:

This novel of intrigue and conflict a number of power, ideology and organization who want to formulate the shape and the way the Union Holland (an early form of Indonesia). Collaborative Nationalist-Religious, Socialist, Communist and Zion-Masonic clashing intrigue and strategy to build influence in the Indian soil. All the intrigue was pinned in Rijswijk Palace (Presidential Palace, now) in the reign of Governor-General Stachouwer.

How does the involvement of a number of senior Army Intelligence (Royal Dutch Intelligence Service) that supports Zion-Masonic, pushing the Indian as a Union-Holland, a shaft power of the Third World in the South-West Pacific (with two Netherlands Antilles: Curacao and Aruba)? How the communist mapping forces of conflict which they set in the Netherlands? Like what the plot is set in Prague Socialist? Conjunction with the Kuomintang and the Chinese Revolution? What kind of movement and position of the Nationalist-Religious which is considered a major barrier to the flow of other forces, amid strong political domination and colonial interests? As far as what information is available at Soekarno Belitong (Pacific Islands, now) the particulars that annexation between VOC and EIC. What kind of relationship Tan Malaka, Soekarno, Hatta, Sjahrir, Amir Sjarifuddin, and many other figures that flows through the experiences of the main character, Makhzam. Sjarir escape in an early morning in downtown Batavia. Then, what Makhzam romance with Sri Yanti and several other women.

Strands of the story of this trilogy novel sets in Batavia, Semarang, Solo, Makassar, Pacific Islands, Kabaena Island, Rotterdam, Egypt, Mecca, Prague, Atlantic and Japan, in the mid-1920s until 2010.

"Red Lines in Rijswijk" is the book one of the trilogy.

Oct 30, 2011

Flamboyant Collapses

By August Suhardono

The magnificent return to his home and wait there
days are getting shorter dry oasis desert of Sirte

Like a desert fox in the bushes to sneak cryptic
unconscious demons continue to seek people's struggle endlessly

A miserable flamboyant, splendor, and forget the time unfriendly
authority inviting forget, the low-flying eagle wings no longer

Khadaffy, farewell flamboyant!

October 20, 2011
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August Suhardono. Lives in Jakarta.

Aug 15, 2011

rivers of grief

Indonesia, tomorrow we are free
commemorate, but they are not independent
do not know what to eat tomorrow, there is no audible
property, conscience, togetherness, multiculturalism
corruptor dance, earth dance mother land

Indonesia, tomorrow we are free
souls surrender to the country, living past history of a period
whose justice, tears and bloods
towards the estuary in the rivers of grief
whose the imperialist, in truth?

Jakarta, August 15 2011
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** In order to welcome the Independence Day.