Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Gunawan Muhammad

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Soesatyo Goenawan Mohamad (born in Karangasem, Batang, Central Java, 29 July 1941; age 67) is a leading U.S. writer. He was also the founder of Tempo magazine.

Goenawan Mohamad is an intellectual who have the insight that so broad, ranging soccer players, political, economic, cultural and art world, film and music. Views are very liberal and open. As Romo said Magniz-Suseno, one of his colleagues, the main opponent Goenawan Mohamad is thought monodimensional.
Youth
Founder and former Chief Editor of Tempo magazine News, is read at the time known as a poet. He was involved in signing the Manifesto of Culture 1964, which prohibited mengakibatkannya writing in various media general. He was writing since the age of 17 years, and two years later to translate the poems American poetess, Emily Dickinson. Since the elementary grades 6, he admitted that events like poetry broadcast RRI. Then the older doctor, when it subscribed to the magazine story, HB Jassin upbringing. Goenawan, which is usually called Goen, studying psychology at the University of Indonesia, political science in Belgium, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, United States. Goenawan Widarti Djajadisastra married and has two children.
World Journalism
In 1971, Goenawan with colleagues to establish Weekly magazine Tempo, a magazine that promote the character Time magazine journalism. There he wrote many columns about the political agenda in Indonesia. Psychiatric critically bring to criticize the Soeharto regime at the time that the growth of democracy in Indonesia. Tempo is considered as opposition to the government so that the issuance discontinued in 1994. Goenawan Mohammad and establish the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), the first independent journalists' association in Indonesia. He also established the Institute of Studies Information Flow (Jesse), which documents the work of violence against the Indonesian press. When Tempo magazine published again after Soeharto revealed in 1998, made various changes such as changes in the number of pages but still maintain quality. Not long after, expand their business with the Tempo newspaper publishes the daily Koran Tempo called. After rising a few years, Koran Tempo reap the problem. Mid-May, 2004, the East Jakarta District Court to punish Goenawan Mohammad and the Koran Tempo to apologize to Tommy Winata. The statement Goenawan Mohammad on 12-13 March 2003 have been assessed do defamation boss Artha Graha it.
Literary works
During more than 30 years into the world of the press, Goenawan produce various works that have been published, including the collection of poems in Parikesit (1969) and Interlude (1971), which translated into Dutch, English, Japanese, and French. Some eseinya terhimpun Portrait in a Young Poet As the matter Kundang (1972), sex, literature, and Kita (1980). But more than that, his writings the most famous and popular is Emergiblog, a short article that was published in a weekly page in the back of the magazine Tempo. Note the concept of the Coast is just as a comment or criticism against the main stem of the body. This means, Emergiblog take a position on the edge, not the central position. Since the occurrence in the late 1970s, has become Emergiblog expression of opposition to the thoughts of the insular, fanatical, and conservative. Goenawan Mohamad also have a contribution in the establishment of Liberal Islam Network.

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