Final Review Text "Bumi Manusia"

Title :
Bumi Manusia

Author :
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Published :
2005 by Lentera Dipantara (first published 1975)

Details :
Paperback, 535 pages

Characters :
Minke, Nyai Ontosoroh, Annelies

Setting :
Indonesia

Isbn :
9799731232 (isbn13: 9789799731234)

Description :
Romance New tetralogy take the background and the forerunner of the nation of Indonesia in the early 20th century. By reading it when we overturned in such a way and live in the era of the emergence of a national movement at first, also a sense of linkage, vertigo soul, romance, and fighting strength of the heroine who was escorting anonymous seeding national building and then later gave birth to modern Indonesia.
Roman first part; Bumi Manusia, as the seeding period and anxiety where minke as well as creator is a human actor blooded aristocracy that as much as possible out of the cocoon of Javanese culture towards a free and independent men, in another corner of the split soul of Europe which became the symbol and the direction of the height of knowledge and civilization.
Pram, described a scene between minke with his father who is very sentimental: Aku mengangkat sembah sebagaimana biasa aku lihat dilakukan punggawa terhadap kakekku dan nenekku dan orangtuaku, waktu lebaran. Dan yang sekarang tak juga kuturunkan sebelum Bupati itu duduk enak di tempatnya. Dalam mengangkat sembah serasa hilang seluruh ilmu dan pengetahuan yang kupelajari tahun demi tahun belakangan ini. Hilang indahnya dunia sebagaimana dijanjikan oleh kemajuan ilmu .... Sembah pengagungan pada leluhur dan pembesar melalui perendahan dan penghinaan diri! Sampai sedatar tanah kalau mungkin! Uh, anak-cucuku tak kurelakan menjalani kehinaan ini.
"Kita kalah, Ma,". I whispered. "Kita telah melawan, Nak, Nyo, sebaik-baiknya, sehormat-hormatnya.".
A historical novel that tells the intellectual journey of a human child (who was named by Pram Minke = monkey) to find the meaning of humanity and national identity of the early 20th century. Dealing with colonialism and its legal system is discriminatory, Minke see a lot of inequality, inequality, oppression, repression, politics of divide, division of class, and politics of colonial Indonesian human misery and humanitarian dropped to its lowest point in the struggle for Indonesian human history. How valuable can not inlander (priboemi) in the eyes of the colonial government. Various life experiences and disappointments experienced in his life, the life around her personal life, especially romance with Annelis, which because of different eye color must be experiencing a "tragedy". The emergence of the figure Nyai Ontosoroh, although only a mistress Totok Netherlands but with great pride as inlanders (priboemi) capable of being a "spiritual teacher" who instilled self-consciousness of the identity of the minke, which eventually led to the awareness to realize this nation, as the legitimate heir to the archipelago, to rise up and fight against colonialism. A very interesting novel, which will evoke the spirit of nationalism, the spirit of pride as a great nation. That our nation has experienced tremendous insult, and whether we will continue to preserve such opprobrium, or even raising awareness to the greatness of the nation, as it never achieved the Majapahit era.
The novel is quite extraordinary. Pram is mastering the context of colonial life at the time. Reading this work, our imaginations will become increasingly exasperated colonial occupation. Colonialism not only on something physical (the body and iron), but also the rights and obligations of idealism. Minke, who is described as an educated Javanese, HBS students, unable to defend their rights before the Dutch courts. In-law, Nyai Ontosoroh was a strong personality. He refused to be bound to the stereotype of the people about his questioning. In his hands, his daughter Annelies Mellema become a formidable business women. This book is very good read. The only Indonesian literary works translated into 30 languages in the world.