Wawancara dengan majalah Luar Biasa No. 44/Tahun IV, Agustus 2012 (halaman 42) yang didirikan oleh Andrie Wongso, Motivator Indonesia No.1.
Interview with Luar Biasa magazine, a motivational and inspirational monthly publication by Andrie Wongso.
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by Shalene Gupta
(Read the article directly on TheJakartaGlobe.com.)
They say the people who truly love you are the ones who constantly urge you to improve. Jakarta native and award-winning writer Jennie S. Bev embodies this. Though she has lived in America for more than a decade, Bev writes exhaustively on Jakarta, its people, its activism and its future.
Bev, a Chinese-Indonesian, maintains a strong connection to her birth country, while at the same time identifying as a member of the Chinese diaspora. Bev moved to America in 1998 at the height of the Asian financial crisis to attend graduate school in California and ended up making it her home.
While Bev lives in California, she has not forgotten her Indonesian roots. Her connection to Indonesia goes deeper than simply missing home; it means actively continuing to be part of Indonesia’s future by constantly striving for social progress here.
Bev’s writing on Indonesia ranges from topics such as gender equality to poverty, but they all share the same theme: the pressing need for reform. Her writing is at once tender and critical. Bev delves into the manifold reasons she chose to leave Jakarta — racial discrimination, political censorship, traffic jams — yet her work displays a deep belief in the city’s potential for change.
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