The Buru Quartet and a ‘Modern’ Indonesia
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Pramoedya managed to discover the offspring of the spirit of Indonesian nationalism. Not a politician who would go on to be president like Sukarno, or a left-wing activist who moved around everywhere like Tan Malaka. The Buru Quartet is a modern work in the true meaning of the term.
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The Buru Quartet can be described as Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s way of answering the question: what is Indonesia becoming? At the end of the 1950s, when the Indonesia question was heating up, he began to think of a series of novels that would seek and trace the steps of Indonesian nationalism.
Pramoedya’s answer was to return to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. This was the time when the seeds of Indonesian nationalism
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