The Quest for Tjamboek Berdoeri

To find the identity of Tjamboek Berdoeri, Benedict Anderson went through the streets of Malang, talked to senior citizens and studied old newspapers.

June 17, 2003

DAILY, Arief W. Djati is concerned more with labor problems as an activist in an organization called Yayasan Arek. He had been with the organization since the mid-1980s and would have stayed and dedicated his life to the promotion of labor rights had he not met Ben Anderson, an Indonesianist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who had returned to Surabaya in 1999 to enlist his support in search of the writer of an intriguing book called In

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