Jompet Kuswidananto: Broken Crystals: From Sartono To Imam Samudra

Sartono Kartodiredjo’s dissertation Pemberontakan Petani Banten 1888 (The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888) and Catatan Harian Imam Samudra (Imam Samudra’s Diaries) were two texts that significantly influenced Jompet Kuswidananto’s work On Paradise, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Grand-Hornu, Belgium.

January 15, 2018

UPON entering the dim, spacious room in the museum in Grand-Hornu, we will immediately see antique crystal chandeliers scattered on the floor, in piecesan odd spectacle, as if these expensive lights had simply fallen off the ceiling.

An indistinct humming can be heard from one corner of the room, from a video projected on the wall showing the hot mudflow in Porong, East Java. The video appeals for jihad (holy war), calling Israel and the United

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