The Rainbow Troops (English version of the Indonesian novel book 'Laskar Pelangi'). andrea-hirata.com Due to high demand, Andrea finally launched the book that was published by Sarah Crichton Books, ...

Under a bright sunny sky, the three-day Byron Bay Writers’ Festival welcomed Andrea Hirata who charmed audiences with his modesty and gracious behavior during two sessions. Andrea also attended a ...

Initially, Andrea Hirata was trying only to reconcile himself with his bitter past when he decided to write about the earliest fragments of his life. One thing in his mind was to share his manuscripts ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WHEN it comes to learning about Indonesia from fiction, most Australian readers won't have gone much further than Christopher Koch's ...

With a population of 240 million, Indonesia is the fourth-largest country in the world. Its literature, however, is barely known in Europe. This makes it all the more gratifying that German and ...

TEMPO.CO, Belitung - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Marie Elka Pangestu and her entourage were confronted by topless children who only wore shorts and their bodies covered in mud when ...

An enjoyable sequel to his domestically successful “Rainbow Troops,” Indonesian director Riri Riza’s “The Dreamer” (based, like “Rainbow,” on a novel by Andrea Hirata) is a coming-of-age movie whose ...

Postcolonial literature is often rife with despair. In the wake of decolonization, entire populations struggle to reconstitute themselves, and the literature that records this process is pockmarked by ...