Launch of the Jakarta Good Food Guide

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Launched “The Jakarta Good Food Guide 2008/2009

by Laksmi Pamuntjak

http://www.laksmipamuntjak.com/about/about.htm

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

7:30 pm

Aksara Bookstore

Jl. Kemang Raya no. 8-B

Jakarta Selatan


Featuring some of the best restaurants and food vendors (kaki lima) in Jakarta as selected by Laksmi Pamuntjak

2002 Editorial Merit Winner of HOW Magazine USA’s 10th International Graphic Design Award

Listed in the Indonesian collection of world class publications of the National Library of Australia

“At last, the benchmark for good dining in Jakarta is established through straightforward writing and honest critiques.” William Wongso, restaurateur, gastronome

“What impresses most in the JGFG (pardon the Orba-esque acronym) is its all-around quality: the clean, elegant design by Le Bo Ye; the thoughtful separation of categories; the concise, catchy writing; and most of all, the informative, critical, knowledgeable reviews … the prose is consistently playful, insightful, polished and never clichéd.” Djakarta! – City Life Magazine

“Laksmi’s diligence in putting together this book deserves much praise …” Gatra

“Governor of Good Eating in Jakarta!” Bondan Winarno, food critic, gourmet and television personality, for Tempo

“This is a delicious read and must-have for long-time residents of the city … Jakarta foodies … have seen nothing like it before.” The Jakarta Post

About the Author
Laksmi Pamuntjak has since 1994 written columns and articles on politics, film, food, classical music and literature for Tempo Magazine and elsewhere. She translated and edited Goenawan Mohamad: Selected Poems, published Jakarta Good Food Guide—an annually updated new take on food writing—and co-founded Aksara, a bilingual bookstore in Jakarta. 

Her first collection of poetry, Ellipsis, appeared on The Herald UK 2005 Books of the Year list, making her the first, as The Jakarta Post wrote, “…(Indonesian) whose book has been mentioned as an international book of the year.”

A treatise on violence and the Iliad entitled Perang, Langit dan Dua Perempuan (War, Heaven, and Two Women) came out in 2006, along with her first collection of short stories, The Diary of R.S.: Musings on Art,  which is now being translated into Indonesian (and whose title story has been translated into French and published in the journal Le Banian).

The Anagram, her second poetry collection, was released in March 2007. 


In September of the same year, she released her translation of Goenawan Mohamad’s book of aphorisms under the title On God and Other Unfinished Things.


Laksmi is currently working on The Blue Widow, a novella set in Buru Island, the site of a large tropical gulag during the Suharto administration (1965-1998), where alleged communists and Communist Party sympathizers were detained for more than a decade without being formally charged or tried in court.

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