UWRF Podcast Rewind | UWRF18 Twenty Years Later
Indonesia, 1998. With the fall of Suharto’s 32-year autocratic regime following years of political turmoil and violence, the ‘Reformation Era’ was ush...
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
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Southeast Asia’s most celebrated literary and artistic event, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival brings together the world’s leading authors, artists, thinkers and performers for five days of big ideas and extraordinary stories. In our podcast series, listen in to stories as told from the UWRF stage.
UWRF Podcast Rewind | UWRF18 Susi Pudjiastuti: Sink It
“Sink it” became a national catchphrase after Indonesia’s maverick (now former) Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries fulfilled her threat to sin...
UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian Emerging Writers 2019
Each year UWRF puts a call out to emerging writers across the archipelago: send us your stories. In 2019, we received 1,253 submissions, the highest n...
UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian, Elsewhere
Around 9 million Indonesians live and work overseas, along with countless descendants of Indonesian migrants. Our panel of orang Indonesia living in d...
UWRF19 Podcast | Homegrown Heroes
Indonesian comic superheroes have long been in the stranglehold of foreign character translations. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe is creating deman...
UWRF19 Podcast | Life After #MeToo
The dust has far from settled on #MeToo, “a movement that represents probably the greatest and most conspicuous collaboration of women since the suffr...
UWRF19 Podcast | Lucy Inglis: Milk of Paradise
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: poppy latex is a commodity without rival. Acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis took us on an epic journey fr...
UWRF19 Podcast | Andreas Harsono: Race, Islam and Power
Andreas Harsono has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch since 2008. His new book Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suh...
UWRF19 Podcast | The Role of the Arts in Cultural Diplomacy
“We’re fractured nations because we’re not reading or translating each other,” said Malaysian author Bernice Chauly during the UWRF17 panel on the 50t...
UWRF19 Podcast | Domestic Spaces
The domestic, the interior and the personal have traditionally been relegated to the realm of women’s writing, which in recent years has been dismisse...