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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457228403321

Autore

Hill David T.

Titolo

Journalism and politics in Indonesia : a critical biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as editor and author / / David T. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16913-6

1-135-16914-4

1-282-57596-1

9786612575969

0-203-86178-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 63

Disciplina

070.41092

Soggetti

Authors, Indonesian - 20th century

Journalists - Indonesia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes; List of illustrations; Part I Early life; 1 Introduction; 2 Bureaucrat's son to nationalist intellectual; Part II The Sukarno period; 3 The 'press of political struggle': The first Indonesia Raya; 4 'Speaking to the World': Author and cultural figure; Part III The Suharto period; 5 The 'golden boy of the New Order': Indonesia Raya re-established; 6 Cultural broker under the New Order; Part IV Denouement; 7 The editor after Indonesia Raya; 8 Conclusion: A life recalled; Postscript: The objecti.cation of Mochtar Lubis; Notes

GlossaryBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia's best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the early 1950s until his recent death in 2004. This book traces the major events in the life of Mochtar Lubis, which is also a prism through which much of Indonesia's post-independence history can be interpreted.  This book is also the story of Indonesia in the second half of the twentieth century, when the people



of the archipelago became an independent nation, and when print media and the influential figures who cont