Mochtar Lubis
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Mochtar Lubis, 1979
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7 March 1922 Padang, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | 2 July 2004 (aged 82) Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Citizenship | Indonesian |
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Mochtar Lubis ([moxˈtar luˈbɪs]; Padang, Indonesia 7 March 1922 – 2 July 2004, Jakarta) was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded Indonesia Raya. His novel Senja di Jakarta (Twilight in Jakarta in English) was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. He was a critic of Sukarno and was imprisoned by him. He has been described as a " par excellence."
Lubis was born on 7 March 1922 in Padang, West Sumatra to Raja Pandapotan Lubis, a high-ranking civil servant, and his wife. He was the sixth child of twelve.
As a child, Lubis wrote children's stories which were published in Sinar Deli, a Medan-based newspaper. When he was an adolescent, Mochtar Lubis often trekked into the jungles of Sumatra. Lubis later wrote that two events during this period, seeing a well-built yet abandoned hut and having a close call with a tiger, served partly as his inspiration for Harimau! Harimau!
After graduating from high school, Lubis worked as a teacher in Nias, North Sumatra. However, after a year he left for Batavia, where he worked at a bank. When World War II broke out and the Japanese occupied Indonesia in 1942, Lubis began working for the Japanese, translating international news for the Japanese army.
After Indonesia declared its independence in 1945, Lubis joined the Indonesian news agency Antara as a reporter. With Antara, he covered the Asian Relations Conference in 1947. During this same period he wrote Jalan Tak Ada Ujung and joined the Indonesian Visual Artists Association.
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