![]() A force he can neither deny nor shake off, the city dogs him wherever he goes Jakarta ‘has taken up abode in ’, ‘inhabiting body’ (Malna 2013 Nikmah 2018:43). What matters is this: Jakarta was the cultural mother that gave birth to Afrizal the artist and the bulk of his literary work. 1954)-have published poems featuring Jakarta as a setting or a nonhuman character. 1957), one of Indonesia’s major poets, said: ‘ll my poems are Jakarta.’ 1 Taken on its own, the disclosure means little, for many other Indonesian writers-such as Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), W.S. Rendra (1935–2009), Ajip Rosidi (1938–2020), and Yudhistira Massardi (b. Sometime in 2010, to a group of student writers in Surakarta, Central Java, Afrizal Malna (b. ![]()
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