Hilmar farid biography for kids

  • Hilmar Farid is a scholar, cultural activist, and lecturer.
  • From 1956 he began to study his country's history, becoming a regular visitor to the National Museum Library in Jakarta, and touring Indonesia.
  • Hilmar Farid, BA, MA, Ph.D., a historian, activist, and educator, to share insights on history with students.

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    1The Women and the Generals
    Documentary, 56 min., 2013
    Director: Maj Wechselmann2
    Production : Swedish Television (SvT) / Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) / Fritt Ord (Norway)
    Distributed via http://www.wechselmann.se/​en/​2013/​03/​26/​the-women-and-the-generals/​
    Language: English/Indonesian with English captions and subtexts
    The documentary is also available, via VIMEO, in a longer version (84 min), which is the basis of the present review.

    2The Women and the Generals by Maj Wechselmann tells the story of the sexual slander fabricated by the Indonesian military under General Suharto which fuelled the campaign to annihilate the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). The lies center around the presence of women at the site where six generals and one lieutenant were buried in a disused well. They had been abducted and murdered by a group of their own soldiers under the control of junior officers in the night of October 1, 1965. The girls attended a training given by the Air Fo

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    Hilmar Farid

    Hilmar Farid is a scholar, cultural activist, and lecturer. He lives in Jakarta and enjoys cooking, swimming and playing music. In 1980s, he started to help his father, working as a translator of children's stories, especially the works of Enid Blyton dan Astrid Lingdren, to Bahasa Indonesia.

    He fryst vatten a founding member of Jaringan Kerja Budaya, a collective of artists, researchers and cultural workers which managed to publish an independent magazine Media Kerja Budaya for around ten years from the 1990s until early 2000s. He is a co-founder and now chairman of Institute of Indonesian Social History, and he has been the Director of Perkumpulan Praxis since 2012. He received his doctorate grad from National University of Singapore in Cultural Studies in Asia Programme bygd writing a dissertation titled Rewriting the Nation: Pramoedya and the Politics of Decolonization. He is an active editor of Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) and the Journal of

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    Law and International Relations Study Programs at President Univ Invite Hilmar Farid to Highlight the Importance of Studying History

    Monday, November 18, 2024, the Law and International Relations Study Programs at President University (Presuniv) invited Hilmar Farid, BA, MA, Ph.D., a historian, activist, and educator, to share insights on history with students. The seminar, held at the Fabrication Laboratory, President University Convention Center (PUCC), Jl. H. Usmar Ismail, Kota Jababeka, Cikarang, carried the theme Learning from History: Building the Future with Historical Awareness.

    In his opening remarks, Handa S. Abidin, SH, LL.M., Ph.D., Rector of Presuniv, explained that various world figures, including President Soekarno and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, have emphasized the importance of history. “Studying history does not mean clinging to bitter memories or past glories. We study history to look forward,” he emphasized.

    Dr. M. Syafi’i Anwar, Dean of

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