Zarida dan Zaihan belajar di universiti yang sama. Emosi gadis itu tersentak tatkala sering dibuli dan dipandang rendah oleh lelaki itu. Dia berang kerana lelaki itu sanggup berkasar dengan perempuan. Memang lelaki itu menang peraduan fizikal, tetapi dia yakin lelaki itu tunduk dalam pertandingan hati dan perasaan. Zarida bertekad mahu membuatkan lelaki itu jatuh cinta Kepadanya. Selepas lelaki itu rebah di pangkuannnya, dia akan memutuskan hubungan mereka, dia akan leburkan kasih tu sebagaimana besi dicairkan. Biar semangat jiwa Zaihan punah, biarkan lelaki itu patah hati. Itu rancangan balas dendam Zarida kerana Zaihan yang berlagak dan dingin itu telah memalukannya dulu. Sebaliknya, setelah hubungan mereka semakin rapat, pendiriannya mula goyah. Personaliti Zaihan membuatkan hatinya terpaut. Namun, ada satu rahsia dalam sisi hidupnya yang belum diketahui oleh lelaki itu. Dia tidak keruan kerana hakikatnya dia tunangan orang.

An astonishing variety of theatrical performances may be seen in the eight countries of Southeast Asia-Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Brandon's lively, wide-ranging discussion points out interesting similarities and differences among the countries. Many of his photographs are included here.

This is a detailed, narrative–based history of Classical Malay Literature. It covers a wide range of Malay texts, including folk literature; the influence of the Indian epics and shadow theatre; Panji tales; the transition from Hindu to Muslim literary models; Muslim literature; framed tales; theological literature; historical literature; legal codes; and the dominant forms of poetry, the pantun and syair. The author describes the background to each of these particular literary periods. He engages in depth with specific texts, their various manuscripts, and their contents. In so doing, he draws attention to the historical complexity of tradisional Malay society, its worldviews, and its place within the wider framework of human experience. Dr. Liaw’s History of Classical Malay Literature will be of benefit to beginning students of Malay Literature and to established scholars alike. It can also be read with benefit by those with a wider interest in Comparative Literature and in Southeast Asian culture in general.

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an international range of scholars and subsequently creating a critical dialogue for approaching this fundamental topic within performance studies. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of a variety of different performance genres, the book will provide a method for exploring the context of a particular form or artist and enhance students' ability to critically reflect on performance.

Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding. In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 1998. From 2000 to 2015 the visibility of the movement grew, until a vicious state-sponsored backlash set in, driven by majoritarian, fundamentalist Islamist groups. Saskia Wieringa tracks the movement's progress and explores the persistence of the butch/femme model of relationships; the proliferations of identities; family violence and conversion therapy; religion; and the anti-LGBT campaign. In its insistence on the local dynamics of this movement, the book aims to debunk the idea that homosexuality is a Western import. Chapters deal with the many religious and secular phenomena that are linked with gender diversity and same-sex relations traditionally, and the erasure of many of these traditions is explained using the concept of postcolonial amnesia. A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement is also a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization studies, pointing out that its dynamics, its historical course and its present condition, different as they are from the dominant Western view on a global LGBT movement, needs to be considered as valuable as accounts of Western LGBT histories are.

Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ("femmes") in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While likening themselves to heterosexual couples, tombois and femmes contest and blur dominant constructions of gender and heterosexuality. Tombois are masculine females who identify as men and desire women; their girlfriends view themselves as normal women who desire men. Through rich, in-depth, and provocative stories, author Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere. Blackwood analyzes the complex and seemingly contradictory practices of tombois and their partners, demonstrating how they make sense of Islamic, transnational, and modern state discourses in ways that seem to align with normative gender and sexual categories while at the same time subverting them. The childhood and adolescent narratives of tombois and femmes offer bold new insights into a social process that is rarely addressed in anthropological, lesbian, gay, or transgender studies. We see how tombois and femmes come to view themselves as boys and girls, respectively, through their interactions with family and community, and how as teenagers tombois learn that masculinity needs its opposite: feminine women. By contrast femmes notice shifts in their desires as they develop long-term relationships with tombois. The book reveals the complexity of tomboi masculinity, showing how tombois enact both masculine and feminine behaviors as they move between the anonymity and vulnerability of public spaces and the familiarity of family spaces. Falling into the Lesbi World demonstrates how nationally and globally circulating queer discourses are received and reinterpreted by tombois and femmes in a city in Indonesia. Though less educated than many internet-savvy activists in major urban centers, their identities are clearly both part of yet different than global gay models of sexuality. In contrast to the international LGBT model of "modern" sexualities, this work reveals a multiplicity of sexual and gender subjectivities in Indonesia, arguing for the importance of recognizing and validating this diversity in the global gay ecumene.

Pertembungan emosi antara Zaid dan Luqman terjadi apabila mereka memuja bunga yang sama dan menyimpan hasrat yang serupa. Zaid seorang mahasiswa yang berkarisma juga merupakan seorang pengarang muda yang sedang meningkat naik namanya di persada sastera tanah air. Luqman pula mahasiawa biasa yang bersifat rendah diri, sopan santun dan baik hati. Masing-masing cuba mencari jalan terbaik untuk memiliki hati Sofiya. Bagi Sofiya, dia perlukan kayu ukur untuk menyukat kasih dua pemuda sekuliahnya itu. Dia sayang kedua-duanya hingga terperangkap di tengah-tengah persimpangan. Terluka, dilukai dan melukakan bukanlah pilihan yang diingini. Namun, dia terpaksa demi sekeping hati miliknya.