![]() The story was actually a novelized biography of Tirto Adhi Soerjo, a pioneer of journalism within the Indonesian modern anticolonial movement. The novels centre upon the live of Minke, an educated Indonesian journalist who was involved in anti-colonial activism against Dutch colonialism in the early 20th century. Buru Quartet consists of four novels: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass. It is widely known that Pramoedya’s best work is his Buru Quartet: a tetralogy of novels written by Pramoedya during his imprisonment in Buru Island. ![]() ![]() Even though Pramoedya was more renowned for his literary works, he has made a long-lasting contribution to Indonesian social and political thought, which could be categorized in three themes: (1) a rethinking of postcolonial identity (2) a critique of nativism, colonialism, and authoritarianism and (3) a contribution of Indonesian perspective of socialist realism in arts and literature. He was a productive writer, both before his arrest in 1965 and even after his release from jail in 1987. ![]() He was a political prisoner during Soeharto’s purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (1965-1978), having previously worked as Editor of Lentara, a cultural supplement of Bintang Timur, and was a prominent member of the communist-leaning People’s Institute of Culture (Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat/LEKRA). Pramoedya Ananta Toer is an Indonesian novelist, historian (noted for his works on Indonesian Chinese ethnicity and the history of revolution), as well as journalist. ![]()
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