Ibrahim Isa

(Jakarta, 1930) is a publicist and since 2002 works as asecretary of the Wertheim Foundation in Leiden. This foundation supports the emancipation movement in Indonesia. Since 1966 Ibrahim Isa was active in the struggle against the Suharto regime. Since then he wrote many political essays. In 2002 a selection of these essays, called Stem van een Banneling (Voice of an exile) has been published in Jakarta. A second and a third selection are in preparation. Since 1986 Ibrahim Isa lives in Amsterdam.