Alit Djajasoebrata

(1935) was born in Bandung, Indonesia, and consciously witnessed the Japanese occupation and the bersiap-period. As a child she fled the force of war and took to the mountains with her parents. Before the war, her father had been a member of the Volksraad (People's Council) in the Dutch East Indies. She came to the Netherlands in December of 1949. She studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Until 2001 she worked as a curator at the Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde in Rotterdam. Alit grew up amid Dutch and Sundanese culture and has ouspoken ideas about the Sundanese language and culture. On 11 January she discusses these topics with the Sundanese poet Ajip Rosidi and journalist Hawé Setiawan.