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‘poem’ by Hamba Allah

Sing-a-long!

Bermain-main dengan tuhan, nabi, ratu dan rock: re-thinking and re-imagining the popular 90s Search song [...]

Pudu Jail Conservation Statement

by Mariana Isa

Conservation statement on Pudu Jail written as part of an MSc thesis. It outlines the historical and architectural significance of Pudu and touches on issues of legislation and real estate value. An invaluable document available for download here on ARTERI. [...]

Goings-on: Prophecy turned backwards

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Over the next three months, with author Kam Raslan as co-curator, Instant Cafe House of Arts and Ideas (CHAI) present a series of public programmes, conversations, performances & film screenings all around the theme of history. Here is a listing of their programme for the next two [...]

Art and Politicking (and in defence of art)

By June Yap

Singapore again.

Seeing how censorship has become a recurring topic as well in this site, I thought I’d add a bit more to the pile: with some more examples and perspectives on contemporary [...]

Benedict Anderson on Tjamboek Berdoeri, Indonesia’s Rooted Cosmopolitan

by Yin Shao Loong

The renowned Southeast Asianist and scholar of nationalism, Benedict Anderson, spoke at University Malaya last Friday on his latest project, a biography of the Indonesian nationalist and journalist Kwee Thiam Tjing (b. 1900).

Kwee, better known by his pen name Tjamboek Berdoeri, has been recently rediscovered in Indonesia with the republication of his collected volume of writingsIndonesia dalem Api dan Bara [“Indonesia in Flames and Cinders”] (Elkasa, 2004). The volume, originally published in 1947, presents his Malay-language writings in the period leading up to Indonesia’s merdeka. [...]