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Indonesian literary forum gets slammed for white-washing the event

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It’s 2021 but colonialism is still very much alive and thriving in Southeast Asia. It may not be in its original form but it still exists, you just have to know where to look.

Jakarta Content Week (Jaktent), a yearly event that platforms creative content and rights trading in the Asian region hosts a number of events which have now gone virtual.

One of the events, ‘Due Rights and Doing Right’, intended to platform translators in the region. It was organized by Indonesian literary…

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Written by: Divya Taery


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