So what, if anything, might they say of Joesoef Isak, who passed away on Aug. 15 aged 81? Isak, of course, was of another kind. One of the "tall men" (to use the Indian expression of their ...

But while it didn’t impress his boss, readers reap the rewards of Lane’s friendship with the late Pramoedya and the two other political prisoners, Hasjim Rachman and Joesoef Isak, who formed a ...

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The tome also covers the roles of Pramoedya’s fellow political prisoners, newspaper publisher Hasjim Rahman and journalist Joesoef Isak, in the stormy inception of the Buru Quartet by publishing ...

To illustrate a point, he borrowed a turn of phrase from Suharto-era publisher Joesoef Isak, who, in 1981, described prosecutors who had interrogated him as 'slow witted'. Even though Bersihar's ...