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I really love how the characters grow in this story. Indonesian only have a single point of view in the case of “Perang Kemandirian”. The republic is the hero and the Holland’s army is the bad guy.

Well, experimenting with ‘seeing things from other perspectives’, this story lets us see things more fairly. There is no exact black and white in any cases.

I like the analogy of Karna used to represent Teto, the

“Repot pula sekiranya Ki Dalang harus melakonkan hikayat kacau. Klenting Kuning dan Gatutkaca.”

I really love how the characters grow in this story. Indonesian only have a single point of view in the case of “Perang Kemerdekaan”. The republic is the protagonis and the Holland’s army is the bad guy.

Well, experimenting with ‘seeing things from other perspectives’, this story lets us see things more fairly. There is no exact black and white in any cases.

I like the analogy of Karna used to represent Teto, the main character in this story. He fought against Pandawa, yet still be loved and respected. Just like my all time favourite character in Mahabharata, Bhisma.

I also like how the story highlighted 1948 and mentioned more about Sjahrir. I mean not to disrespect any other heroes that we have, but sure Sjahrir takat played one of the most important roles in shaping this country. And he deserves the respect.

I don’lengkung langit quite enjoy the last part of the book, but I like the analogy of Gatot Kaca and Klenting Kuning. It is beautiful and gives justice to all characters.

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 The Late Occupation

 The story in this period centers around the Istana Mangkunegaran. It shows the feudalistic life of Javanese royal society, where women must show her deep submission to her husband. It was opened by the male protagonist’s narration, Teto, during his childhood. Then the female protagonist, Atik, was introduced. It was a happy, rather funny childhood of army and royal family. A few chapters later, things turned grim since the Japanese occupation began. The Japanese occupation grew strong hatred towards Japan for Teto. Atik’s family also felt the same hatred, but they were also learned the civilized side of Japanese culture outside the fascist military in the World War II through music and movies. They also realized how the Javanese sokah’s tradition also has its civilized and cruel side.

 Indonesia will not be a cruel independent state. – Atik

 The National Revolution

 After the declaration of Independence Day, Teto became a lieutenant of NICA, whereas Atik became a cak membela-revolution who adores Soekarno, Sutan Sjahrir and the rest of the Republicans. Despite their growing love, they keep opposing each other’s political stance. In Teto’s view, Indonesia needs some more time to mature as a nation before they gain its independence. He detests the Republicans who seemed like hypocrites who obeyed the Japanese to gain their own will through political maneuver. In Atik’s view, it was more like “now or never”. Life free or die hard.

 You have to be able to read between the printed lines. Otherwise, you are just a mere captive of the texts. – Atik

 In this period, we were introduced to Verbruggen, a Dutch Mayor who proposed Teto’s mother in the past (obviously rejected). Having brought Teto to become a lieutenant in significantly short time and took an influence in Teto’s character development, he became one of the important characters in this book. He has a foul mouth, but a fair amount of wisdom in contrast. We were also introduced to Karjo and Samsu the Setankopor (The Briefcase Demon) who will be shown again in the next period.

 This period was ended in the midst of the devastating result of the two Politionele Acties (Agresi Militer Belanda) that brought both Indonesia and the Dutch military force much grief and loss, as shown on both Teto and Atik’s side. Meanwhile, they began to realize how they long for each other. However, the harsh reality kept drifting them apart, much that Atik began to reconsider her long wait for Teto’s usulan.

 The Early New Order
There is quite much time skip from the previous period to the last period. After the Roundtable Conference, Teto quitted from NICA and studied Mathematics in Europe to be a computer expert. In addition, he gained a new nationality, which was not mentioned explicitly in the book (though I assume that he became a Dutch). He became the Production Manager of a multinational oil company. In this period, he visited Indonesia for the third time since he got the new nationality. He visited his new best friend, John Brindley, an European Ambassador who keeps pet snakes in his garden. Afterwards, he attended Atik’s dissertation defense. Accepting Atik’s family’s invitation, Teto decided to stay at their place for a while. How will Teto and Atik’s relationship develop, after years of separation and opposing ideals?

 In this period, Teto seems to already calmed down significantly. He grew up and accepted the loss he has been experienced since ever. He also began to accept the changing era and acknowledged his own mistakes. Like the rejected male weaverbird, he rebuild his nest – his life and dignity – after passing through the phase of anger and denial, where he furiously destroyed his rejected nest (ideals).

 Beside showing the societal and political aspects that were occuring in the corresponding periods, Romo Mangun (the author’s nickname) also took us back to experience the changing ecological condition of Java in the 40s to the 70s. The scene where Atik fed the birds and watched their behavior told me how diverse the city birds in Java back then. It shows how srigunting, jalak, gelatik, manyar and kutilang were still commonly wild in the cities in the 40s. The diversity gradually decreased and finally the wild weaverbirds became rare in the 70s. Nowadays, there is mostly sparrows and occasionally a few more kinds of city birds roaming in the cities of Java. The other kinds of birds are mostly kept as caged pets today.

 There are many things that I like from this book. I like how I got to refresh my memory on the history of Indonesia through the three periods shown in this book. Even instead of refreshing my memory, I felt more like diving those periods, experiencing the events occurred there from the Republicans and the Dutch armies’ side. The narration style, of which I assume adopted the way people perona pipi in the corresponding periods, really helped to live up the atmosphere. I also like how this book shows how people from different sides in this book perceive the three periods that were used as time settings. It taught us to sympathize with those different sides, even if they are commonly seen as the antagonists.

 This book ends beautifully, leaving a bittersweet feeling that seemed to have accumulated since the second period. However, it felt a bit odd when I realize how Karjo and Samsu was not furthermore involved in the story. What is the purpose of their presence, other than to describe the society and political issues in their corresponding periods? Overall, I enjoyed reading this book a lotre. I would love to recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical literary fictions.

 The international edition of this book, The Weaverbirds, was published by Lontar Foundation in 1991. Unfortunately, the edition is already considered rare now. I hope Lontar Foundation will consider to reprint this book in the future so that this book can be accessible to more readers.

 Anyway, I have titinada encountered footnotes in fictions for ages berayun-ayun I began to read this book. Is it because I have not been an avid reader for some time until recently, or it is indeed already uncommon nowadays?

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Teto, the main character, undergoes such a rollercoaster kind of life, which puts him in a life full of questions and doubts which are titinada necessarily answered at the end. Between logic and emotion, he marches on against everything he loathes and, sadly, also loves.

And what’s more is the romance —whi

This book starts so sweetly, what with all the carefree and curious child’s nature all around it. But somehow, the author manages to turn into a life-questioning tale readers loathe but can’t let go.

Teto, the main character, undergoes such a rollercoaster kind of life, which puts him in a life full of questions and doubts which are titinada necessarily answered at the end. Between logic and emotion, he marches on against everything he loathes and, sadly, also loves.

And what’s more is the romance —while founded on such vague and infrequent interaction you couldn’t really call it’s romance— is so thick you could feel it along all the pages.

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There are some interesting concepts explored here, but unfortunately it just isn’horizon a very good book.

There’s a lot of icky-weird discussion of gender and desire (“Atik’s womanhood, I knew, was as vital as the tropical forests that yearn for the dark rain clouds and the masculine thunder that heralds the coming of the monsoon,” to which I made the note, “are you sure you’re going to be able to deliver that monsoon, lover boy?”), including the conflation of romantic and sibling love seen in Sitti Nurbaya: Anugerah Lain Sampai and This Earth of Mankind.

Possibly the weirdest passage, for me, was when Setadewa and Atik encounter each other unexpectedly while on opposite sides of the revolution. Seta looks into her eyes and is frightened at first, but afterwards he thinks to himself, “No, her shining black eyes were titinada the ominous ends of two gun barrels, but rather the dark nipples of a mother’s breasts. And I, at that moment, was titinada in reality a soldier at all, but a child, a baby, crying out for life and a woman’s care.” (my note on this little paragraph: “wut.”)

There’s also the weird scene in which Atik defends her doctoral dissertation and one of her examiners goes off on an existential tangent, asking

“What meaning is there to be found in the breathtaking beauty of the creatures that have been present in the forests, the oceans, and the sky long before the coming of humankind? Is it possible that the beauty we see in the animal kingdom, or in the rose, is nothing more than a mindless play of nature, completely coincidental and devoid of meaning?”

Now, I dropped out of academia after my masters, so I can’ufuk say for certain that biology thesis defenses don’t ever turn into philosophical discussions along the lines of 2 a.m. freshman dorm debates, but this guy seems to a) have a pretty weak grasp of the concept of evolution, and b) be sorely in need of some brushing up on scientific theories of consciousness. This particular example might seem a small matter to a non-biologist, but the text was full of little instances of things like this, minor discordant details, overblown prose, failures of research or imagination that took me out of the story, which, even without these problems, wasn’t a very compelling narrative.

This is a condensed version of a longer review that I published on my blog, Around the World in 2000 Books.

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Mangunwijaya works inspired by romance, entitled “Manyar birds”, I began to feel the message in the novel. the novel tells of a love triangle that berlatarkan

“Manyar bird is unique in that the male makes a nest for females and will captivate the females will choose males according to nest later used as a place where the eggs will feel safe. and males who are not elected will destroy the nest of the half to death and then repeat again made to make nests for the females were chosen by the other “

Mangunwijaya works inspired by romance, entitled “Tempua birds”, I began to feel the message in the novel. the novel tells of a love triangle that berlatarkan Japanese occupation period after the defeat of the Dutch until the old bestelan in progress. a lotre of which are taught in this novel. one of them that: love does not need to have:) including that already very deep love between Teto and Atik puyn also be muted. love from childhood till when tweaking Teto was 40 years old and was still enduring 40 years when on one occasion, Teto, a former member of the Dutch rebels, met with Atik, a former secretary of the Indonesian side, back. and the fact also must be accepted that Atik married husband expected although titinada by him but tried to convince Atik Teto to be grateful to her husband. they also eventually have to accept that in fact they are still very much in love with one another. even very subtle charm Atik still felt by a Teto who was then a mathematician and computer. in the end, Atik and her husband had passed away when executing the mandate of Mr. Atik husband for hajj. Atik was the third child and was appointed as a form of child Teto keepsake will love that never teraih: Atik

wow. if you read it yourself, we’ll see a lot of inspiration such as when reading the works of other Mangunwijaya. many life lessons that we will find. that life is just stop drinking. and much else. so, i request you to read this amazing book .. happy reading:)

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This book shows us different perspectives that an Indonesian man sees, before and shortly after Indonesia’s proclaimed independence day. The story tells us a ‘why’ of a man, which takes part as an army of colonialist against his own country, being an anti-republic.

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Finish… at last. After 3 months. Sampe gerendel yg belum disampul itu sobek saduran laminatingnya karena terlalu lama ngendon di ransel. Gemar banget sama metafora baru klinting dan gatotkaca. Love the bittersweet ending, too.