Chairil Anwar was an Indonesian poet and member of the “1945 generation” of writers. He was born on July 26, 1922. During his life, he is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.
Culture
There is more to the archipelago’s traditional, heritage fabrics than the popular batik.
It’s not easy to verify if your art came from an Indigenous artist or if it was made in Indonesia, and it’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are suffering as a result.
The ReelOzInd! 2022 Short Film Competition and Festival is underway, and to assist filmmakers in their submissions, we thought we’d ask this year’s jury about what they appreciate and look for in the medium.
The Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry has determined the Ngerebeg Tradition in Tegalalang Village, Gianyar, Bali to be an intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia.
The call for submissions to ReelOzInd! 2022 has been made, and while we await fantastic entries from filmmakers around Australia and Indonesia, we thought we’d ask some of our jurors what this year’s theme of ‘suara/voice’ means to them.
The fact that the film wasn’t actually shot on the Island of Gods drew criticism in Indonesia, but Sandiaga said that the film being shot down under was not by design.
Siti Asiyah, a veteran in the Indonesian shrimp industry, runs a shrimp hatchery and grow-out farm in Jepara, Central Java, which is both a commercial venture and a place for the next generation of aquaculture professionals to flourish.
The Macan Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Jakarta is devoting an exhibition – The Theater of Me – to the work of the artist with more than 80 pieces on display spanning three decades of his career.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Thursday said that Indonesia’s domestic production of rice has helped keep the price of the country’s most popular staple food stable.
A thrilling win over Papua New Guinea helped the Indonesian women book a spot in next year’s T20 World Cup.
The government has declined an offer from the Saudi Arabian authorities to send an additional 10,000 Indonesians on the holy pilgrimage this year, citing time constraints.
Indonesian Islam has long been lauded as tolerant and “moderate”. It is this moderate character that has enabled Indonesia to become a flourishing democracy.
In December 2018 three Yolngu artists from north-east Arnhem Land arrived in Makassar, South Sulawesi, to retrace the sea-faring trade relationships of their ancestors.
Fellow villagers have praised an Indonesian man for capturing a crocodile measuring 4.3 meters (14.1 feet) on the island of Sulawesi using just a rope.
Former President Megawati Soekarnoputri, the long-serving chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has been widely criticised for comments she made at her party’s 2022 National Meeting on 21 June.
