Balancing the Book Shelves
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Five years of reform has opened this nation's bookstores to a flood of leftist books. But what is the reaction of Indonesia's right as the literary scales tip?
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They are second generation newcomers in bookshops. Their names sound indigenous enough, but their minds have wandered far and away, plucking inspiration and direction from Marx and Engels, picking from Lenin, borrowing from Trotsky and Bakunin. Tan Malaka and Marco Kartodikromo are indeed names once popular in the distant history of this country. But in the era of the New Order, those names were sexy: talked about in low voices and discussed
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