Policy and Disclosures
Guest Editor:
Dorothea Rosa Herliany
Acknowledgments
All paintings by Sri Astari
Editor's Note
John H. Mc Glynn • i
Fiction
Stefani Hid • Things that Live in My Head • 1
Dyah Merta • Women of Stone • 2
Lily Yulianti Farid • Rie and Rei • 3
Clara Ng • Burial Ground • 4
Dee • A Piece of Yellow Cake • 5
Djenar Maesa Ayu • The Eyes in Eclipse • 6
Ida Ahdiah • Saleha in the Snowstorm • 7
Intan Paramadhita • Spinner of Darknes • 8
Lan Fang • The Seventh Baby • 9
Mona Sylviana • After He Said, "Come In" • 10
Nisrina Lubis • A Party of Rara • 11
Ratih Kumala • The Woman with a Pitted face • 12
Susialine Adilea • Family Reunion • 13
Yetti A KA • Loving Flower • 14
Zoya Herawati • A Fly in a Glass of Coffee • 15
Shally Novita • From Gemstone to Jewel • 16-17
Linda Christanty • The Lighthouse • 18-19
Nukila Amal • Laluba • 20-21
Poetry
Dorothea Rosa Herliany • 22
A Letter from Mother
The Well is Someone's Home
Aloysya Louis
Birthday
The Bad-Love Song
Komang Ira Puspitangingsih • 23
Small Nameless Street
In My Poems
Downstream, my Prayers become the Girl of my Dreams
At the Station
Dina Oktaviana • 24
Post-Nuptial Hotel
Inner Landscape
Crease-filled Letters
Broken Heart Walking
Ghosts of Tanjungkarang
Inggit Putria Marga • 25
She Who Waits
Echoes, 1
Echoes, 2
After the Call of Evening Prayer
She Who Kneels before the House of Ashes
She Who Burns Incense in the Temple
Monologue
Lily Yulianti Farid and Luna Vidia Matulessy • 26
The Kitchen: A Dramatic Monologue
Photographs
Paintings by Sri Astari • 27
Welcome to the inaugural edition of I-Lit . What is I-Lit ?
• I-Lit is a free, independent online journal published by the Lontar Foundation for the purpose of promoting I ndonesian L iterature i n T ranslation;
• I-Lit is a forum for the publication of translations of Indonesian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays dating from the 2000 onwards;
• I-Lit i s a virtual microphone for Indonesian authors and a listening aid for English-language readers, serving to stimulate a dialogue among and between Indonesian authors and the world;
• I-Lit is textual photo album depicting the lives and habits of Indonesian people.
I-Lit aims to translate, publish, and promote the finest contemporary Indonesian short stories, poems, and essays. The journal hopes to open doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by Indonesian writers. I-Lit seeks to connect Indonesian writers to the international reading public, to students and educators, and to print and other media and to serve as a primary online location for a global conversation about Indonesian literature.
Each issue of I-Lit will have a theme and for this inaugural issue I-Lit's editors chose as its theme "Not Chick Lit!" in order to highlight the literary works of younger Indonesian women writers. Throughout most of the 20th century, Indonesian literature was very much a male domain but ever since the 1990s Indonesian women have been in the forefront of the literary world carrying the baton of literary trends and change. Both the number and the productivity of Indonesian women writers today are amazing and bode well for the future of Indonesian literature. We hope you enjoy.
The publication and free dissemination of I-Lit is made possible by financial donations from Friends of Lontar. This issue was made possible by the generosity of Ro King, The Brim Fund, and a number of individual donors whose names are listed (please see: Acknowledgments).
I hope you will consider becoming a friend and contributing to this important venture. If you live outside of Indonesia, you may send your contribution to Give2Asia by clicking the following link: http://give2asia.org/lontarfoundation If you live in Indonesia, please send a query for banking instructions to contact_lontar.org.
This year, in October, is Lontar's 25th anniversary. I-Lit is one of a number of gifts that Lontar will be giving to fans of Indonesian literature around the world.
John H. McGlynn, a graduate of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1981), lives in Jakarta where, in 1987, he established the Lontar Foundation, the only organization in the world devoted to the publication of Indonesian literature in translation. As the translator of several dozen full-length literary works, he has garnered much international praise.
Through the Lontar Foundation, of which he is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees, he has edited, overseen the translation of, and introduced to the world, works by more than 250 Indonesian authors. Also through the Lontar Foundation, he initiated the "On the Record" film documentation program which has thus far produced twenty-four films on Indonesian writers and more than thirty films on Indonesian performance traditions. As a film subtitler, he has subtitled more than 100 Indonesian films.
John is the Indonesian country editor for Manoa , a literary journal published by the University of Hawaii and for Words Without Borders , a virtual literary journal. He is a member of the International Commission of the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI), PEN International-New York, and the Association of Asian Studies. He is also a trustee of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, which oversees the Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia.
Cecep Syamsul Hari is a poet, translator, creative writing instructor, and editor. His works have been translated into English, Czech, German, Bengali and Korean. He has published seven collections of poetry, one book of short stories, a novel and several books in translation. His book of poetry, Perahu Berlayar Sampai Bintang (Kiblat, 2009), was selected as a finalist of the Indonesian Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2008-2009. His newest book of translations is titled Perajin Kaca 100 Puisi Hongaria (Kiblat, 2009). Cecep has been invited to be writer in residence at the Korea Literature Translation Institute in Seoul (2006), the Rimbun Dahan Arts Residency in Selangor, Malaysia (2007), the Magyar Forditohaz (Hungarian Translators House) in Balatonfüred, Hungary (2009), and the Bundanon Arts Residency in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia (2009). Cecep is the founder of Sastra Digital (a website about Indonesian literature, www.sastradigital.org ) and he is also an editor of Horison literary magazine.
Laura Noszlopy is an anthropologist, writer, translator and editor. With a first degree in Comparative Religion from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a Masters degree and PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from University of East Anglia, she has taught in several UK universities. She has also lived and worked for almost a decade in Indonesia, where she worked for the Lontar Foundation, Latitudes magazine and Equinox Publishing, among others. Her original work has been published internationally in books, journals, magazines and online. Her most recent publication, with Professor Matthew I. Cohen, is Contemporary Southeast Asian performance: transnational perspectives (Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2010). She is also working on a biography project in her role as a Research Associate in the Theatre and Drama department of Royal Holloway, University of London.
In addition to her work with the Lontar Foundation, Laura currently works as an editor for the journals Indonesia and the Malay World and Inside Indonesia . She also owns and runs the specialist editorial services company www.katakata.co.uk .
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(Translated by Irfan Kortschak )
Maybe I'm the only person who has never been free of anxiety. Anxiety is part of my blood; it is stuck there, in my brain and in my nerves, like a parasite impervious to antibiotics. I am sure of this, especially now as I think of what I did tonight.
