Goenawan Mohamad is a famous Indonesian poet and man of letters. He was born at Batang, Central Java by July 29th 1941. His early writings included "Potret Seorang Penyair Muda Sebagai Si Malin Kundang (1972)"(The Portrait of A Young Poet as Malin Kundang) and "Seks, Sastra, Kita (1980)" (Sex, Literature, Us). His more recent writings were "Pariksit dan Interlude (2001)", "Setelah Revolusi Tak Ada Lagi (2001)" (After Revolution No Longer Exist), "Kata, Waktu (2001)" (Word, Time). But above all he was famous and known well as the leader of Tempo (means 'Time') magazine, one of the most bonafide magazines in Indonesia. The magazine was forced to be closed down twice by the government during the New Order era because of its vocal and criticizing voices to the authoritarian and corrupt regime. Goenawan Mohamad was also famous for his brilliant short weekly articles at Tempo, "Catatan Pinggir" (translated and published in English as Sidelines). The concept of 'sidelines' is just like comments or critics to the 'mainlines' or the 'headlines'. His 'sidelines' expressed an opposition and critics to monodimensional and narrow-minded viewpoints and thoughts. Another characteristic of his 'sidelines' is that it never ended with a final systematic conclusion, but always with either questions or open-ended comments. Therefore, the readers would not stop thinking and contemplating after finished reading the articles. The 'sidelines' had been compiled into 5 books until now. The term Java can refer to: In geography: Java (island), the most populous island in Indonesia Javanese language, a language widely spoken on the island of Java Java coffee, a variety of coffee plant which originated on the island of Java, or a slang word for coffee Java Trench, a... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... New Order or Orde Baru is the term coined by Indonesian former president and dictator Suharto to refer to the years of his regime, 1966 - 1998. ... The sidelines is a term commonly used to define the white/colored lines which mark the outer-boundaries of a gaming field. ... Opposition may refer to a number of topics: astronomical opposition political opposition parliamentary opposition Opposition to a patent, see for instance Opposition procedure before the European Patent Office This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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