A wave of diaspora books
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Through genres ranging from self-help and travel to children’s fiction, old people’s biographies, personal memoirs, scholarly non-fiction and everything in between, new Indonesian authors are reaching out to the public to tell their story, share their knowledge and sometimes, attempt a bit of everything. Among the non-historical subsection of books that has recently emerged and seems to have piqued public interest is the story of the diaspora: the Indonesians living abroad and making their mark in a land far away. To many Indonesians, being able to read about places that would otherwise be unimaginable (and unattainable) is perhaps why narratives about contemporary diasporic...