Making Berita Gunung Berapi
A friend asked me, what is the connection between the books that you publish? I then realised that the connection between our books might indeed be not that obvious. But also, I felt: maybe it is not important that the links between the books we publish are not immediately discernible. I’m thinking that maybe it […]
Berita Gunung Berapi
In 1952, the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia published the Berita Gunung Berapi (Volcano News) amidst a condition of near civil war. Indonesia’s first president and revolutionary hero, Soekarno, was struggling to hold the fledgling Republic together. Factions of guerrilla armies and separatist movements were taking up arms to establish their own mini-states. Parts of west […]