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A debate with Antjie Krog and the Aceh poet Azhari about the South-African Truth and Reconciliation committee, and about the chances for Indonesia to install a similar committee for the struggle in Aceh and East-Timor, and the period of transition from the rule of Soekarno to Suharto. In 'The Country of My Skull' Antjie Krog wrote an impressive account on the South-African Truth and Reconciliation committe..

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Date and time Friday 2 September 2005 from 10:00 to 12:00 hrs
Location Teater Utan Kayu - Jakarta

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Antjie Krog

(South Africa, 1952) is a poet, writer, academic and a cherished reciter. Her book Country of My Skull (2000, adapted for film in 2004) is a personal account of the proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She published her autobiographical memoirs as A Change of Tongue (2003). Krog has won many prizes, including the Hertzog prize in South Africa and the 2018 Gouden Ganzenveer in the Netherlands. An anthology of her poetry was published in Dutch in 2010, titled Hoe zeg je dat (How Do You Say That), and Begging to be Black, the sequel to Country of My Skull and A Change of Tongue.
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