About the Author

Afrizal Malna (b.1957) is a poet, scriptwriter, and art critic. Malna, who grew up in Jakarta, travels throughout the country frequently to participate in literary, poetry and philosophical discussions. During the late 1990s he collaborated with the Urban Poor Consortium. Malna is the author of a broad body of critical and scholarly work. Malna has been a decades-long photographer of contemporary Indonesian culture and individuals involved in varying artistic practices.