Bakri Siregar was an Indonesian socialist literary critic and writer.
11 Facts About Bakri Siregar
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Bakri Siregar was active writing by the Japanese occupation in the early 1940s, as evidenced by one of his short stories, "Tanda Bahagia", being published in Asia Raja on 1 September 1944.
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Bakri Siregar considered their system efficient and beneficial to the populace, which reaffirmed his ideology.
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Bakri Siregar praised Soviet writers who rejected cosmopolitanism and abstractionism.
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Bakri Siregar published several dramas after returning to Indonesia, including the original Tugu Putih, Dosa dan Hukuman, and Gadis Teratai.
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Bakri Siregar published his first analysis of Indonesian literature, Ceramah Sastra, in 1952.
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From 1956 until 1957, Bakri Siregar taught Indonesian language at the University of Warsaw in Poland.
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Bakri Siregar's final teaching position was as a lecturer on the history of Indonesian literature at Peking University in China, a position which he held until 1962.
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Bakri Siregar himself was arrested and spent twelve years in prison.
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Bakri Siregar defined Indonesian literature as works written in Indonesian which reflected the nation's struggle for continued independence.
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Bakri Siregar's Sedjarah was banned, and as of 2010 was still difficult to obtain.