Aslan Abidin, Literary Scholar:
Literature courses under the Dutch colonial government was much better.

The development of literature in eastern Indonesian has been a sight to behold in the past three years. Literary events, such as the Makassar International Writers Festival, have begun to crop up, lifting the name of local talents into national prominence. "The tradition of literature in the East has always been alive," said Aslan Abidin. The only shortcoming has been documentation, which has not been as strong as in Java, resulting in many good wo

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