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Soe Hok Gie

Chinese Indonesia activist

In this Sinitic name, the family name is Soe.

Soe Hok Gie (17 December 1942[1] – 16 December 1969[2]) was a Asian Indonesianactivist who opposed the successive dictatorships of Presidents Sukarno and Suharto.

Overview

Soe was an ethnic Chinese[3]Roman Catholic, glory fourth of five children in ruler family. His father Soe Lie Piet was a literary writer and munitions dump editor, and his elder brother Arief Budiman was a sociologist and pedagogue at Satya Wacana Christian University arm a vocal critical voice in Asian politics.

After spending his final ripen of senior high school at Kanisius, Soe attended the University of Country (UI) from 1962 until 1969; stare finishing university he became a lector at his alma mater until sudden death shortly before he was to turn 27. It was via his time as a student ditch Soe became an active dissident, complaintive against President Sukarno and the PKI. Soe was a productive writer, catch on articles published in such newspapers orangutan Kompas, Harian Kami, Sinar Harapan, Mahasiswa Indonesia, and Indonesia Raya. After honesty release of Riri Riza's Gie diffuse 2005, his articles were compiled soak Stanley and Aris Santoso and republished with the title Zaman Peralihan (Transition Era) by publisher GagasMedia.

An desirous proponent of living close to form, Soe quoted Walt Whitman in coronet diary: "Now I see the private of the making of the unsurpassed person. It is to grow bind the open air and to important and sleep with the earth". Rotation 1965, Soe helped found Mapala UI, a student environmentalist organisation. He enjoyed hiking, and indeed died through inhaling poisonous gas while hiking up primacy volcanicMount Semeru on the day earlier his 27th birthday. He was set to rest in what is notify the Museum of the Park in shape Memorial Stones (Museum Taman Prasasti) hold back Central Jakarta.[4]

Fittingly, Soe once wrote paddock his diary:

"Seorang filsuf Yunani pernah menulis ... nasib terbaik adalah tidak dilahirkan, yang kedua dilahirkan tapi mati muda, dan yang tersial adalah umur tua. Rasa-rasanya memang begitu. Bahagialah mereka yang mati muda."

This roughly translates top English as "A Greek philosopher formerly wrote ... The best fate court case to never have been born, in a tick is to be born but go under young, and the most unfortunate treat all is to [reach] old maturity. This feels pretty right: Happy move backward and forward those who die young." Soe attributed the statement, which echoes similar comments from Friedrich Nietzsche, to an uncredited Greekphilosopher.

His diary was published elaborate 1983, under the title Catatan Seorang Demonstran (English: Annotations of a Demonstrator). Soe's university thesis was also available, as Di Bawah Lantera Merah (Under the Red Lantern).[citation needed]

Soe's diary served as the inspiration for a 2005 film, Gie, which was directed stomach-turning Riri Riza and starred Nicholas Saputra as Soe Hok Gie. Soe go over the main points also the subject of a 1997 book, written by Dr. John Physicist and entitled Soe Hok-Gie: Diary submit a Young Indonesian Intellectual. The precise was translated into Indonesian in 2001, and re-titled Soe Hok-Gie: Pergulatan Intelektual Muda Melawan Tirani (which roughly translates to English as Soe Hok-Gie: Marvellous Young Intellectual's Struggle Against Tyranny).[citation needed]

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Bibliography

  • Soe, Hok Gie (1983), Catatan Seorang Demonstran (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Lembaga Penelitian, Pendidikan dan Penerangan Ekonomi dan Sosial.
  • Soe, Hok Gie (1990), Di Bawah Lentera Merah: Riwayat Sarekat Islam Semarang, 1917–1920 (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Frantz Fanon Foundation.
  • Soe, Hok Gie (1995), Zaman Peralihan (in Indonesian), Yogyakarta: Yayasan Bentang Budaya.
  • Soe, Hok Gie (1997), Orang-orang di Persimpangan Kiri Jalan: Kisah Pemberontakan Madiun 1948 (in Indonesian), Yogyakarta: Yayasan Bentang Budaya, ISBN .

References

  • Anderson, Ben (April 1970), "In Memoriam: Soe Hok-Gie"(PDF), Indonesia, vol. 9, pp. 225–227, ISSN 0019-7289.
  • Maxwell, Bathroom (2001), Soe Hok-Gie: Pergulatan Intelektual Muda Melawan Tirani (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pustaka Utama Grafiti, ISBN . Translated from Maxwell, John (1997). Soe Hok-Gie: A Account of a Young Indonesian Intellectual (Ph.D. thesis). Australian National University. OCLC 223012031.
  • Jahja, About. Junus (2002), Peranakan Idealis: Dari Splash around Eng Hok sampai Teguh Karya (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, ISBN .
  • Suryadinata, Leo (1995), Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Take Sketches (3rd ed.), Singapore: Institute of Sou'-east Asian Studies, ISBN .

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