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!

Flora’s Dream
graphic, student work IWEC INDONESIA graphic, student work IWEC INDONESIA

Flora’s Dream

Namanya Flora. Mimpinya adalah untuk menjadi penyanyi. Ibunya adalah Kelly Merquin, seorang model yang terkenal di kotanya. Ibunya sangat ingin dan mendorong Flora menjadi model, namun Flora selalu menolak.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
Broken Unbroken
fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA fiction, student work IWEC INDONESIA

Broken Unbroken

They all harmonize, this chant of promises and these strains of sounds of oppression, merging into a song of distress and agony that lulls and dulls me as I find myself slipping away — slipping, slipping, slipping… and finally, I am free.

Read More