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Dalih Sembiring

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DALIH SEMBIRING was born in Binjai, North Sumatra on May 4, 1983. His short stories have been published in various media, such as Indonesia’s literary magazines “Horison” and “ON/OFF,” Indonesia’s short story journal “Jurnal Cerpen Indonesia,” as well as “The Jakarta Post,” an English-language newspaper. Dalih was a contributor for “The Jakarta Post” under the pseudonym Daniel Rose. He spent a year working as a features reporter with “Jakarta Globe,” also an English-language newspaper for which he is now a contributor. He co-authored a teenlit titled “Cha untuk Chayang” with his friend Abmi Handayani. His solo novel “Nel” is about the contrast between homosexuality and militarism in his hometown. Get in touch with Dalih Sembiring through da ...more

Faery Puck, Ol' Earth & the Love Flower

(first short story to get published nationally, born from a boy's naive fury toward the injustice prevailing in his country; apparently, things haven't changed much)

Under the silk cotton trees I greeted the rest of my days. Fibres that had split from their bolls soared in the twirling wind. The ringing of a river afar; cicadas sang in a rising symphonic bar. The colour of dusk rested on the tip of Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 24, 2010 13:00
Average rating: 3.44 · 156 ratings · 28 reviews · 3 distinct works
Rahasia Bulan: Kumpulan Cer...

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Cha untuk Chayang

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Nel

4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009
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“Hal-hal yang dulu diatur oleh orang tua kita menjadi serangkaian kebiasaan, seperti urutan yang kau biasakan ketika memakai sepatu: kaus kaki kanan lalu kaus kaki kiri, sepatu kanan lalu sepatu kiri. Lantas kejadian-kejadian memberimu sifat dan pendirian. Kemudian ada kenangan-kenangan indah. Kita menyimpannya dengan harapan kelak bisa terulang.”
Dalih Sembiring, Nel

“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Hal-hal yang dulu diatur oleh orang tua kita menjadi serangkaian kebiasaan, seperti urutan yang kau biasakan ketika memakai sepatu: kaus kaki kanan lalu kaus kaki kiri, sepatu kanan lalu sepatu kiri. Lantas kejadian-kejadian memberimu sifat dan pendirian. Kemudian ada kenangan-kenangan indah. Kita menyimpannya dengan harapan kelak bisa terulang.”
Dalih Sembiring, Nel

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