Agus R. Sarjono

Demokrasi Dunia Ketiga

Language: indonesian

Translations: english (Democracy of the Third World), german (Demokratie der Dritten Welt)

Demokrasi Dunia Ketiga

Kalian harus demokratis. Baik, tapi jauhkan
tinju yang kau kepalkan itu dari pelipisku
bukankah engkau… Tutup mulut! Soal tinjuku
mau kukepalkan, kusimpan di saku
atau kutonjokkan ke hidungmu,
tentu sepenuhnya terserah padaku.
Pokoknya kamu harus demokratis. Lagi pula
kita tidak sedang bicara soal aku, tapi soal kamu
yaitu kamu harus demokratis!

Tentu saja saya setuju, bukankah selama ini
saya telah mencoba… Sudahlah! Kami tak mau dengar
apa alasanmu. Tak perlu berkilah
dan buang waktu. Aku perintahkan kamu
untuk demokratis, habis perkara! Ingat
gerombolan demokrasi yang kami galang
akan melindasmu habis. Jadi jangan macam-macam
Yang penting kamu harus demokratis.
Awas kalau tidak!

Agus R. Sarjono

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* 27.07.1962, Bandung, Indonesia
lives in: Cimanggis, Indonesia

Agus R. Sarjono (born 27 July 1962 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian poet and author.[1] In 1988, he graduated from Department of Indonesian Literature of IKIP Bandung, and then finished his postgraduate program in Universitas Indonesia at the faculty of literature and cultural studies in 2002.

He writes poems, short stories, essays, critics, and drama, which have been published in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and several journals in Germany, France, Netherlands, England, and the United States. His poems are included in more than twenty anthologies.

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He works as a lecturer in the Theatre Department of STSI Bandung, as an editor of the literary magazine, Horison, and as the Program Director of The Jakarta Arts Council for the period of 2002–2006. He was a writer-in-residence at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden from February through October 2001, courtesy of Poets of All Nations Foundation. From December 2002 to March 2003 he stayed in Langenbroich, Germany, as a guest writer of The Heinrich-Böll-Foundation.

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