A young Australian volunteer living in a Jakarta slum works diligently for an Indonesian NGO, faking a revolving loans scheme. A hard-drinking journalist attempts a rescue amid corrupt officials, compliant aid workers and obfuscation by Australian authorities. The pollution and poverty of Jakarta harbour love and respect despite the murder, mayhem and massacres of a receding New Order.
I wrote this novel while commuting, via a cafe, to the editorial office of The Jakarta Post in 1997. Thanks to Maskimedia it can be read on Kindle via Amazon: Playing the poor man. The novel explores whiteness and its exotic other without any theoretical support. Let me know if such an ignorant exploration works.
I wrote this novel while commuting, via a cafe, to the editorial office of The Jakarta Post in 1997. Thanks to Maskimedia it can be read on Kindle via Amazon: Playing the poor man. The novel explores whiteness and its exotic other without any theoretical support. Let me know if such an ignorant exploration works.
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