PUBLICATIONS

Since its establishment in 1987, the Lontar Foundation of Jakarta has carried on its shoulders the mission of improving international awareness of Indonesian literature and culture, primarily throught the publication of Indonesian literary translations. Lontar’s Publications Division, the backbone of the organization, has the signi cant task of determining which literary works are to be translated so as to re ect Indonesia’s cultural wealth.

The Lontar Foundation publishes books under four imprints: Lontar, BTW, Amanah, and Godown. All titles released prior to 2002 (when Godown and Amanah were established) carried the Lontar imprint.

 

 

Titles released under the Lontar imprint are primarily translations of Indonesian literature. (Exceptions include large-format books that embody Lontar’s mission of enhancing international knowledge of Indonesian culture.) Most Lontar titles are intended for general reading pleasure and for use in teaching courses on Indonesian literature and culture.

Titles in the BTW series—with “BTW” standing for “by the way,” as in “by the way, have you heard about such and such an author?”— feature work by new and emerging Indonesian writers. This series of mini-books is aimed at publishers, editors, and literary critics

Under its Amanah imprint, Lontar publishes Indonesian-language titles that Lontar itself has put together in the course of developing an English-language publication.

Under its Godown imprint, Lontar produces books that were written in English about Indonesia. These might be novels, collections of poetry, travel books and so on.