A special event of UCLA's Indonesian Studies Program.

Monday, April 18, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Home is Leila S. Chudori’s remarkable fictional account of life in Indonesia and in Paris among political exiles during the reign of Suharto, from the 1965 anti-communist massacre of over a million alleged Communists and their sympathizers and its aftermath, through Suharto’s overthrow in 1998. The history of the 1965 massacre was manipulated by the Suharto regime to portray its involvement in this atrocity in a favorable light, a history explored by director Joshua Oppenheimer in his extraordinary Oscar-nominated documentaries "The Act of Killing," and its powerful follow-up, "The Look of Silence."

An entire generation of Indonesians was raised in a world of forced silence, where facts were suppressed and left unspoken. Home, one of the first novels in Indonesia to explore the history of the regime’s victims against the official state-sponsored version of Indonesia’s history, caused an immediate sensation when published in Indonesia in 2012, and was recognized with Indonesia's most prestigious literary prize: the Khatulistiwa Literary Award.

Leila S. Chudori (born in Jakarta, 1962) is Indonesia's most prominent and outspoken female author and journalist. She has worked at the renowned Indonesian newsmagazine TEMPO since 1989, where she is now Senior Editor. A scholarship recipient, she completed university studies at Trent University in Canada and returned to Indonesia in 1988. Chudori started publishing as a child at the age of 12 in children’s magazines, and she is the author of several anthologies of short stories, novels, TV & film scripts.

Cost : Free and open to the public.

Barbara Gaerlan
310-206-9163
cseas@international.ucla.edu

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies