Celebrating literary goods created by Indonesian youth. Delivered from our students, staff and guest contributors; are a diverse panoply of poetry, comics, fiction, essays and anecdotes in Indonesian and foreign tongues.

Enjoy our stories!

Tangled
fiction, tutor work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, tutor work IWEC INDONESIA

Tangled

Tangan kita tak pernah sudi melepas satu sama lain, bukankah begitu? 

Dulu, sempat aku melepas genggaman tanganmu, saat kau pertama kali masuk sekolah. Aku, sebagai kakak yang dititipi menjaga adiknya, buru-buru mengejarmu menuju gerbang SD-mu.

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Room 406
fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA

Room 406

The room roars with laughter and shouts as the night goes by, and soon enough, guests start to trickle out few by few then all at once, until it’s only Callie. She’s helping me clean up with her lips still red, even when the clock strikes eleven. 

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Roh Rumah Sebelah
fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA

Roh Rumah Sebelah

Rumah Nomor 13 ini sudah beberapa kali ingin dirobohkan, namun selalu gagal karena kejadian mistis, seperti: alat-alat pertukangan yang terangkat dengan sendirinya dan beberapa konstruktor yang merasakan ada yang menyentuh tangannya, seperti digandeng. Dan itu adalah hal yang sangat mengerikan.

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Lompat
fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA

Lompat

Malam pada akhir Januari itu adalah malam yang panas kucing di gang sebelah tidak mau berhenti mengeong dan kipas angin bututku mendesing dengan keras sedang protes karena terlalu sering dipakai. Dan sama seperti malam-malam sebelumnya, aku ingin pulang.

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I Wonder
fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA

I Wonder

Every so often they would walk out of the unclosed door of their booth, which opened directly to their comfortably-, yet palely-lit pantry, the ceiling lights casting a vanilla hue refracted on the marble table top, framing their faces in a soft halo. Time would slip past their awareness, sometimes.

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