Archive for June, 2011
Note on ‘Coconut Leaves’
Literature | Thursday, 30 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan One of the short stories issued in this week edition of Manglé magazine is written by Ena Rs, a contemporary Sundanese fiction writer. Entitled Daun Kalapa 'Coconut Leaves' (Manglé No. 2329, pp. 22-23), this story tells about the death of a coconut [...]
A Road to Dutch
Journal | Tuesday, 28 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawe Setiawan Dutch is like a dead neighbour. It was actually very close to national and local languages of Indonesia. It was even the main language spoken by East Indies educated people, and yet, unlike English for Indian people, Dutch has long disappeared from Indonesian daily life [...]
Jamal: Sundanese Aesthetic Revisited
News | Monday, 27 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawe Setiawan Jamaludin, a Bandung-based scholar, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis concerning Sundanese aesthetic. Undertaking his research at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) over the past four years, he presented his findings in a public defence at ITB campus in [...]
Schoolchildren Joined ‘Angklung’ Festival
Culture | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan Hundreds elementary and junior high school children from all over West Java and Jakarta joined the Sixth Bianglala Angklung Festival, which was held today at Taman Budaya Jawa Barat, Bandung. Organized by Yayasan Pendidikan Bianglala 'Bianglala Educational [...]
Looking for Junghuhn
Land of Sunda | Wednesday, 15 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan Introduction OVER the past two years I have been undertaking a research into the visualization of natural landscapes of nineteenth-century Priangan, which were made by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864). Priangan—a Sundanese toponym of what colonial time [...]
Sundanese Congress to be Held in July
News | Monday, 6 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan The Bandung-based Institute of Sundanese Language and Literature (LBSS) will host Kongrés Basa Sunda 'Congress on Sundanese Language' next month in Bogor, West Java. A committee member of the congress said yesterday that the event will be held from 11 to 13 July. He also said [...]
