Poedjangga Baroe’s Faithful Editor
Amir Hamzah emerged as a young intellectual who founded Poedjangga Baroe, the time period’s most influential literary magazine. He promoted the use of Indonesian through poetry and prose.
August 15, 2017
Armijn Pane’s offer in September 1932 was readily welcomed by Amir Hamzah. His former schoolmate at the Algemene Middelbare School (AMS/Dutch high school) in Solo, Central Java, had written a letter inviting Amir to establish a new literary group.
Armijn certainly did not work alone. Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana had asked the North Sumatra writer to involve Amir Hamzah. Amir, who belonged to the Langkat Sultanate family, one of the oldest Malay kin
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