Review Film Room
Room: Inside the Head of the Entrapped Room helps her learn about inner struggle and understand the depth, distance, darkness and coldness of being a survivor in a world still marked by violence and injustice. There are many horrible things that humans can experience in a world of war, disease and pestulance, miserable poverty, oppression […]
Piece of Mind: In the Story of the Gerwani Women, Truth and False Memories
Last month I visited the Monumen Pancasila Sakti at Lubang Buaya, Jakarta, for the first time. Those two words, “Lubang Buaya” (crocodile hole), have been on my mind since I was in primary school in the 1980s, attending Pancasila morality classes and history classes, where we had to study the 30th September Movement, the so-called […]
Thought of the day-Raising Women’s Voices
Raising Women’s Voices From Kartini to the Youth of today… “The young woman contemplated and fought for a struggle no less arduous than the battle against the occupiers, which is the fight to unshackle women from the subjugation of their own people.” Who is Kartini? Women such as Tjut Nyak Dhien, Christina Martha Tiahahu and […]
We are against poligamy !
July 25, 2003, marked a setback in the Indonesian women’s movement. On that date an Indonesian businessman, Puspo Wardoyo, the owner of the restoran Wong Solo franchise, organized an awards ceremony for males who had married more than one wife. More than 30 women’s organizations as well as individuals from Jakarta protested this event. Among […]
A slap to the face: the struggles of Indonesian women ( from an anthology doc film AT STAKE)
My eyeballs almost fall out from their sockets after two hours of choking on such deep feelings. My sentiments had been subjected to strong emotions of gundah, sadness and anger. Churned up. That was how I felt as a new film by five young Indonesian directors came to an end: the film was AT STAKE. […]
