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Hey, this article is looking goood these days - hurrah! One question, from the intro:
Does anyone know what instances of recent (post-Suharto, I assume) censorship is this is referring to? Unless I missed it, it's not mentioned in the rest of the text, but it seems important, so it should be explained more fully, with a citation. Anyone? CDC (talk) 05:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, this has been addressed. ( Wallamoose ( talk) 18:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC))
Someone knowledgeable about such matters should add a sentence on why he's know as Pramoedya, not as Toer. Indonesia names can be confusing to those not familiar with the onomastic conventions. Interlingua talk email 22:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
This is a fine article about the career of Pramoedya. Thank you to the many editors who have honored this literary great by writing his career up in this manner. ( Wallamoose ( talk) 18:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC))
The article claims he was not allowed to have even a pencil and that he narrated his works orally, but then later states that he was later able to write the stories down.
This needs to be clarified. I think there is little doubt that he WAS writing things on paper--scraps of paper, I think I have read/heard--and that somehow he got manuscripts back to Java. This I have never seen explained. While the tetralogy--a fictional story--could conceivably have been remembered and written back on Java (but not what happened, I believe), for other works like his book on comfort women, that is simply not possible.
I don't have interviews and other references on hand, so I can't resolve this contradiction, but perhaps others can.
One simple--but not ideal--solution would be to add the words "at times" before the statement about the pencil. I don't know if regulations changed, or the authorities looked away...and that could influence the accuracy even of this simple patch.
Either way, the article is obviously "wrong" because of the contradiction. ( Dewobroto ( talk) 03:16, 30 November 2017 (UTC))