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Chairil Anwar's "Heritage: The Fear of Stultification": Another Side of Modern Indonesian Literature

Author(s) -

Hendrik M. J. Maier

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

indonesia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 2164-8654

pISSN - 0019-7289

DOI - 10.2307/3351207

Subject(s) - indonesian , state (computer science) , sovereignty , archipelago , political science , history , the republic , law , economic history , media studies , sociology , theology , philosophy , politics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , linguistics

There were, indeed, some things politicians and intellectuals in Jakarta had to get used to in 1950. After four years of diplomatic and military maneuvers the Republic of Indonesia was now recognized as a sovereign state and the poet Chairil Anwar was dead. It was time for a retrospect: the mystification of the Revolution was soon to begin. Concurrently, it was time for a prospect: ideals and dreams could be realized in the newly created state. From now on not Amsterdam but Jakarta would be the metropolis for life in the archipelago, the untouchable center of domination, at once inspiring and crippling.

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