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An early story of Kho Ping Hoo Watson, C.W.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 18, No. 2
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Kho Ping Hoo (1926-1994) is the most well-known of all Indonesian writers of popular silat stories, largely set in China, which describe the adventures and romances of legendary heroes famed for their skill in martial arts. It is less well-known that he began his career writing critical stories about socio-economic conditions in the late 50s and early 60s. This paper discusses one of these stories. It places the story in the context of political developments of the time, in particular as they affected the Chinese Indonesian community. The paper argues that this story and one or two others like it come at the end of a tradition of Sino-Indonesian literature which had flourished from the end of the nineteenth century until the mid-1950s. After 1960, Chinese-Indonesian writers cease writing realist fiction of any kind and write either silat stories or romantic stories set in middle class urban environments.
Book review; Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East. Watson, C.W.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 18, No. 1
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Carool Kersten, Islam in Indonesia; The contest for society, ideas and values. London: Hurst & Company, 2015, xx + 373 pp. ISBN: 9781849044370. Price: GBP 25.00 (soft cover). Watson, C.W.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 17, No. 3
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Tatar Sunda; An introduction to modern Sundanese studies Watson, C.W.; Moriyama, Mikihiro
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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A translation of and commentary on Yus R. Ismail’s short story “Assalamualaikum…” Watson, C.W.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 2
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Yus R. Ismail is a prolific Sundanese short story writer whose stories regularly appear in Sundanese journals and newspapers. This story “Assalamualaikum…“ appeared in Pikiran Rakyat in August 2023. It is a characteristic story of his in that it takes as its starting point the everyday lives of Sundanese villagers, and yet at the same time creates an aura of mystery around their activities. Some brief introductory information is given on the origins of the Sundanese short story in the early twentieth century and its subsequent development up to the present. A translation of the story given parallel to the original Sundanese text follows. To conclude, I offer a critique of the story that deals first with its structure, and then with what I regard as stylistic literary elements that are closely related to features of the structure and grammar of Sundanese – shared to some extent with Indonesian – and to Sundanese socio-linguistic conventions. I make the point that a translation into English cannot do justice to the ambiguity of voice of the narrator in the story.
Co-Authors Mikihiro Moriyama, Mikihiro