‘Journal’ Archives
Manglé: Interview with the Past
Journal | Thursday, April 19, 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan An interview with philologist Undang Ahmad Darsa is the main issue of this week’s Manglé. The scholar teaches manuscript criticism at Padjadjaran University. Since 1980s Undang has devoted his scholarly career in reading, editing, and issuing Old Sundanese manuscripts [...]
Manglé: Criticizing Political Party
Journal | Friday, April 13, 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan ‘From now on until the time of gubernatorial election, Manglé would like to cover issues concerning the upcoming election.’ So says the editorial of Manglé’s latest issue. The need to cover the issue, the editorial goes, stems from a ‘conscience’ that West Java [...]
Manglé: Preserving Fairy Tales
Journal | Thursday, April 5, 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan As its editors had promised last week, Manglé presents dongéng 'fairy tales' in its latest issue. From this week onward, the editors had also said, it will regularly issue fairy tales in order to preserve and revitalize this traditional form of story telling. As story [...]
Manglé: Doubting the Election
Journal | Thursday, 29 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan The latest issue of Manglé magazine presents a news story of the upcoming West Java gubernatorial election. Based on interviews with political scholars, it describes the electoral arena as being marked by nu ubyag, nu haré-haré 'those who are eager to compete each [...]
‘Manglé’: A Memory of Persib
Journal | Thursday, 22 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan A personal memory of Persib (Indonesian Football Association of Bandung) written by Ami Raksanagara can be read in this week’s edition of Manglé magazine. Mrs. Ami is a senior writer who is still productive in her old age. Her personal essay recollects her teen years [...]
Politics on ‘Manglé’
Journal | Thursday, 15 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan The coming West Java gubernatorial election is in the headlines of this week’s Manglé magazine. The story uses the popular term pilgub that stands for Indonesian pemilihan gubernur or Sundanese pilihan gubernur ‘gubernatorial election.’ On its front cover it says [...]
Dr. Watson at Pasundan
Journal | Wednesday, 14 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan Since I love to read Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, I like to know his name: Dr. Watson. This Dr. Watson, however, is not a medical doctor like the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes but rather an anthropologist, and that’s much better for me because I don’t [...]
From a Pasundan’s Forum
Journal | Saturday, 10 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan I was a moderator of a discussion organized and facilitated yesterday afternoon by Paguyuban Pasundan ‘Sundanese Association’ at its secretariat in Bandung, West Java. The topic was about leadership and Sundanese culture. The participants of this forum were [...]
‘Manglé’ of This Week
Hawé Setiawan Journal | Thursday, 8 March 2012 | sundanesecorner.org This week's edition of Manglé magazine presents a cover story about Sundanese story telling. Reporting a celebration of International Mothertongue Day, which was held at Padjadjaran University's campus in Bandung last week, it tells that some senior figures such as former [...]
A Statesman’s Journey
Journal | Wednesday, 15 February 2012 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan /1/ IT is my second time to gratefully participate in the regular forum of Bandung-based Asia-Africa Reading Club. My previous participation was to put forward some introductory remarks on a memoir written by Roeslan Abdulgani (1914-2005), The Bandung Connection: [...]
