What followed was a horrifying pogrom against communists and communist sympathizers sustained from that year to 1967, through which up to one million Indonesians were brutally killed and one million more imprisoned.įor 32 years, the rulers of Indonesia under the New Order insisted on their version of what took place in 1965. Six army generals were assassinated and the military, then in the control of Suharto, blamed the coup on the Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, and sustained a propaganda campaign to stoke anti-communist sentiments. That day, a coup was attempted by a group that later became famous as Gerakan 30 September. It was through my encounter with that restaurant that the novel Pulang or Home was born.Īs someone born in 1962, I’d only been told about September 30, 1965, as an incident that Suharto’s New Order government called the G30S/PKI. At Rue de Vaugirard, in Paris’s sixth arrondissement, stood the restaurant Indonésia, a cooperative set up six years prior, in 1982, by Indonesian political exiles who had fled to Paris in the 1960s: Oemar Said, Sobron Aidit, J.J.

The year was 1988 and I had traveled to Paris on my way back home to Jakarta after graduating from Trent University in Ontario, Canada. Read a long excerpt from Home in The Margins’ series on Indonesian Literature in Translation. Chudori’s novel Home, originally titled Pulang in Indonesian and translated by John McGlynn, is out from Deep Vellum Press this October. In the end the author chose death to be the end of the psychological suffering experienced by Dimas Suryo as the main character.Leila S.

These four psychological disorders value greatly disturbs the peace of life and inhibits the process of self-realization in carrying out a true life. These disorders after the researchers describe them, anxiety, trauma, stress, and depression. This caused a mental disturbance to the character, Dimas Suryo. The results of the analysis show that the character Dimas Suryo experienced various inner conflicts due to thinking of events after the events that occurred in his homeland and also his strong desire to return to his homeland despite several failed attempts.

Chudori and several relevant similar studies. The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with novel data sources Pulang written by Leila S. This study has a purpose, namely, analyzing the psychology of literature by examining the psychological aspects of the character, and describes the form of mental disorders experienced by the main character, Dimas Suryo. The researcher formulated the problem in this study how the psychiatric aspects of the main character in the novel go home to face inner conflicts and elaboration of the form of inner conflict experienced by the main character in the novel. This research is motivated by the lack of popularity of the study of novels using literary psychology.

Pulang by Leila S. Chudori