Julia suryakusuma biography

Julia Indiati Suryakusuma (born 19 July 1954) is an.
Julia Indiati Suryakusuma is an Indonesian feminist, journalist, and author.
Julia Suryakusuma is an influential feminist scholar and activist, and author of among others “State Ibuism” (2011, 2021) and “Julia's Jihad” (2013).

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TheJakartaPost

elgium has conferred a royal honor on Indonesian feminist writer Julia Suryakusuma for her efforts to advance various human rights causes.

During a ceremony held at the ambassadorial residence in Central Jakarta on Wednesday, Belgian Ambassador to Indonesia Stéphane de Loecker presented Julia the Order of the Crown on behalf of Belgium’s King Philippe.

The ambassador said in his remarks that the award was a "highly regarded honorific distinction only rarely attributed to non-Belgian personalities of particular merit".

“Your writing always has a unique flavor, mixing your broad experience and an acute sense of observation and analysis of political and social life over the years with a freedom of thinking that is becoming unusual in these times of gregarian behavior and simplified thinking, dictated by social media,” Loecker said during the ceremony, which was also streamed live.

A columnist at The Jakarta Post, Julia is known for her outspoken stances on sex, politics and religious issues. She has been described as Indonesi

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Julia Suryakusuma talk for Gandhi’s Timeless Teachings for Simple Living and Sustainability, IndoIndians, October 2^nd, 2024

Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 155^th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the giants of the 20^th Century, a global icon of peace and an advocate for the most vulnerable. I read his biography when I was a teenager and watched the 1982 movie “Gandhi”, which at 3 hours 11 minutes was quite a challenge! Both the book and film left an indelible impression on me.

Before I start, I should mention that I was born in India, which hopefully makes me an honorary Indian, although Ambassador Chakravorty told me that as the daughter of a diplomat, I cannot apply for Indian citizenship. What a pity! Today we are focusing on an aspect of Gandhi’s teachings and life which is particularly close to my heart. The IndoIndians panel discussion is also very timely both from a micro and macro point of view, i.e., my personal life and the state of the world. This coincides with the feminist slogan: “the personal is political”, which can also be transposed

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The Only Birthday Worth Celebrating: A Reflection on Julia Suryakusuma's 70th Birthday

The Only Birthday Worth Celebrating: A Reflection on Julia’s 70th “Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.” A.E. Housman (1859-1936), “A Shropshire Lad, II” Within the living memory, Housman’s “threescore years and ten” or seventy years as the widely expected term for a human life was the norm. By the time one’s seventh decade - “kepala tujuh” as the Indonesians put it - hoved into view one knew one had to start packing up one’s bags to set forth on a voyage to the “undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns” as Shakespeare’s Hamlet had it. When I grew up in Burma in the early 1950s Housman’s “Shropshire Lad” seemed to have it about right. Looking around at my own family, such life course expectations seemed pretty standard. At that time, I had no male relatives in their seventies. Most had been cut down in their prime in the recently ended war: my two uncles on my mother’s side mee