Popular fiction in ... Indonesia

       In The Jakarta Post Niken Prathivi reports on the Popularization of literature in Indonesia. (With Indonesia 'Guest of Honour' at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair we should (I hope) be hearing a lot more about Indonesian literature in the coming months and year.)
       Among the interesting observations:

Fiction writers nowadays have diverse backgrounds from bankers to statisticians so that casual Indonesian language and insurgent English have replaced the highly-stylized Indonesian used by writers in the 1990s or even the sastra wangi (fragrant literature).

       And:

Literary expert Robertus Robet says the line between literary and non-literary fiction today is getting blurred through many themes and styles, a sign of progress in Indonesian literature.

       As always when discussing Indonesian literature, I commend the Lontar Foundation Modern Library of Indonesia to you, your one-stop introduction to the scene.