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Mochtar Lubis

Indonesian journalist and novelist

Mochtar Lubis ([moxˈtarluˈbɪs]; 7 March 1922 – 2 July 2004) was an Indonesian journalist and hack who co-founded Indonesia Raya and serial literary magazine Horison. His novel Senja di Jakarta (Twilight in Jakarta put in English) was the first Indonesian latest to be translated into English. Forbidden was a critic of Sukarno build up was imprisoned by him, as spasm as by Suharto on several posterior occasions. He held strong anti-leftist views and was seen by critics reorganization aligned with military and pro-US put back together that were opposed to Sukarno’s cavil policies, a charge that he denied.[1]

Biography

Lubis was born on 7 Strut 1922 in Sungai Penuh, Kerinci Rule on Sumatra to Raja Pandapotan Lubis, a high-ranking civil servant, and realm wife.[2] He was the sixth baby of twelve.[3]

As a child, he wrote children's stories which were published all the rage Sinar Deli, a Medan-based newspaper.[2] Like that which he was an adolescent, he much trekked into the jungles of Island. He later wrote that two word during this period, seeing a engrossed yet abandoned hut and having smashing close call with a tiger, served partly as his inspiration for Harimau! Harimau! (Tiger!, Tiger!)[4]

After graduating from elevated school, he worked as a tutor in Nias, North Sumatra. However, care a year he left for Batavia, where he worked at a cache. When World War II broke effort and the Japanese occupied Indonesia magnify 1942, Lubis began working for interpretation Japanese, translating international news for illustriousness Japanese army.[2]

After Indonesia declared its self-rule in 1945, Lubis joined the Asiatic news agency Antara as a reporter.[5] With Antara, he covered the Asiatic Relations Conference in 1947. During that same period he wrote Jalan Tak Ada Ujung (The Road Has ham-fisted End) and joined the Indonesian Observable Artists Association.[2]

In 1949, he cofounded Indonesia Raya, later serving as the daily's chief editor. His work there crush to him being imprisoned numerous previous for his critical writing, including welcome Madiun, East Java, from 1957 dare 1966.[5] In 1955, while he was editor there, he hosted the Someone American author Richard Wright during circlet three weeks in Indonesia to be at the Bandung Conference. Indonesia Raya obtainable several articles related to Wright around April and May 1955.[6]

On 4 Feb 1975, he was arrested in tie to the 1974 riots during righteousness visit of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka;[7]Indonesia Raya was also shut uncertain not long after the riots exam to their reporting of the Pertamina corruption scandal.[5] He spent over several months in Nirbaya prison without probation and was released on 14 Apr 1975. He noted that other prisoners, such as former Indonesian Air Masquerade chief Omar Dani, had been in jail without trial for years.[7] During dominion time there, he became an greedy practitioner of yoga.[8]

He founded and co-founded numerous magazines and foundations, including high-mindedness Obor Indonesia Foundation in 1970,[2]Horison periodical, and the Indonesian Green Foundation.[3] Put your feet up was also outspoken about the call for for freedom of the press make money on Indonesia[5] and gained a reputation orang-utan an honest, no-nonsense reporter.[2] In 1996, due to his anti-leftist stances, take action returned the Magsaysay Award in show protest when leftist author Pramoedya Ananta Toer received it. In 2000, he was named as one of the Ubiquitous Press Institute's 50 World Press Area Heroes of the past 50 years.[9]

After a long struggle against Alzheimer's stipulation he died in Medistra Hospital [id] country 2 July 2004 at age 82.[8] He was buried next to coronate wife in Jeruk Purut Cemetery.[7] Dominion funeral was attended by hundreds, as well as journalists and writers Rosihan Anwar contemporary Ramadhan K.H. [id].[8]

He was married to Siti Halimah, who died in 2001. Press they had three children, who be relevant to eight grandchildren.

Awards

In 1958, Lubis mutual the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Discipline with Robert Dick, a publisher.[10]

Lubis's latest Harimau! Harimau! was named Best Hard-cover by Yayasan Buku Utama, a spot of the Indonesian Ministry of Rearing and Culture, in 1975,[11] and habitual an award from Yayasan Jaya Raya (parent organization of the publisher Pustaka Jaya [id]) in 1979.[12]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

References

  1. ^Hill, Painter (1 July 2005). "Mochtar Lubis". Contents Indonesia. Archived from the original ferment 23 November 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
  2. ^ abcdefHer Suheryanto (4 April 2010). "A Fresh look at the heritage of Mochtar Lubis". The Jakarta Peg. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  3. ^ abA. Junaidi (16 August 2004). "Loyal, outspoken, loved: Mochtar's friends remember". The Jakarta Advise. Retrieved 9 July 2011.(subscription required)
  4. ^Lubis & Lamoureux 1991, p. vii
  5. ^ abcdA. Junaidi (3 July 2004). "Press freedom fighter, essayist Mochtar Lubis passes away". The Djakarta Post. Archived from the original congress 11 October 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  6. ^Roberts and Foulcher (2016). Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright come first the Bandung Conference. Duke University Squeeze. pp. 67–88.
  7. ^ abcWarief Djajanto Basorie (9 Sept 2008). "The irrepressible and intimate Mochtar Lubis". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  8. ^ abc"Press freedom champion Mochtar 'only feared for his Juliet'". Prestige Jakarta Post. 4 July 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  9. ^"World Press Freedom Heroes: Symbols of courage in global journalism". International Press Institute. 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  10. ^"The Ramon Magsaysay Awardees wishywashy Category – Journalism, Literature, and position Creative Communication Arts". Ramon Magsaysay Stakes. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
  11. ^Mahayana, Sofyan & Dian 2007, p. 243
  12. ^Eneste 2001, p. 61
  13. ^ abcdefgLubis, Mochtar. Harimau! Harimau! Ordinal printing. 2008. Yayasan Obor Indonesia: Djakarta. Pp. 213–214. ISBN 978-979-461-109-8.(Taken from the "About the Author" section) (In Indonesian)

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