In The Jakarta Post Talia Shadwell reports that Lontar working on more literary projects, as:
Shadwell also reports that:
A Jakarta-based translation organization wants bookworms worldwide to tap into Indonesia's rich literary reserves, and is turning to cyber technology to spread the word.That would be the launch of I-Lit: Indonesia Literature in Translation -- with issue one devoted to 'Not Chick-Lit! Writing by Younger Indonesian Women Writers'. (Indonesian pop fiction is notoriously dominated by 'chick-lit' (of a particular, local sort) -- personally I wouldn't mind seeing more of that in translation as well .....)
Shadwell also reports that:
The journal's launch comes ahead of the Lontar Foundation's February launch of its online digital library.I'm a big fan of what the Lontar Foundation does -- but worryingly a Google search currently warns away from the site (hence no link; URL is: http://www.lontar.org) with the warning 'This site may harm your computer'. I hope they get any and all security concerns (real or Google-imagined) fixed soon.