Responses to Human Rights Issues in Indonesian New Order Fiction

摘要

This paper investigates what approaches Indonesian fiction employs to represent human rights issues in Indonesian literature duringthe New Order, particularly the short stories. The fictional representation is closely bound with the issue of Indonesian postcolonialstudies, which concern not only with external colonization but also with internal one. The examination deals with key issues related tooppression as a form of human rights violation committed by state related bodies, groups and individuals. Indonesian authors attempt toresist such action in the form of social narrative criticism, terror stories and trauma narratives. Such fiction reflects Indonesian writers’disagreement with injustice in the nation.