WHAT exactly is literature? Why does it always cause polemics or, contrarily, alienation?

Say three writers, A, Z, and N, are coworkers. They do not share the same opinion, for example, in teaching literature at school. As in the recent case when the Ministry of Education launched the Sastra Masuk Kurikulum (Literature in Curriculum) program.

At first, the program was met with enthusiasm. It has been a long time since literary studies were