ORWELL’S WORKS AND INDONESIA NOWADAYS  

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Dewi, Nenden Rikma

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013
Topik: Orwell; Indonesia; postcolonial; revolution; nation and nationalism
Fulltext: 23 Orwell's Works and Indonesia Nowadays.pdf (415.17KB)

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Indonesia as a big nation has many uniqueness for its culture and local language. Yet, it also has many problems involving social, cultural, political, religious and economics issues. These issues were unarticulated since the Soeharto’s government for almost 32 years, and began to spring since Reformation era. This event was ended Soeharto’s totalitarian system though it was called as democracy. Indonesia now is in a progress to be a better nation, yet it is still facing the same problems as before. Issues that were being unarticulated for years happened not only in Indonesia but also other countries and nations. One of nation facing the similar issues is British in George Orwell’ s point of views through his works. Even though Orwell wrote his works in 1930-1946, the issues he discussed have great relevancy with Indonesia’s situation nowadays. His works become ‘a looking glass’ for Indonesian to deal with their problems. By using postcolonial approaches, the relation between Indonesia nowadays and Orwell’s works can be identified and presented through a sharp discussion. Therefore, this essay will focus on how to comprehend Orwell’s thoughts on social, cultural, political, religious and economics issues occurred in Europe in Indonesia context. Thus through this study can be concluded that those issues might happened in various way but they are surely universal issues and revolution is one of selected method to treat those issues.

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