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But that's not even half the story. Levin employs a technique more powerful than his raw virtuosity in teaching packed houses in Paine Hall--Eros. Levin unabashedly uncovers the erotic content of the music being studied. His lectures are peppered with overt references to sex and seduction, affairs and...
But Eros and 40 energetic staff members have created an appetite for controversy in the Indonesian reading public that will not be easily slaked. "DeTik's young journalists have captured a mood," comments Aristides Katoppo, a publishing consultant whose own newspaper was shut down during a purge in the 1980s...
Eros attributes some of his editorial brashness to his days as a student activist in Germany and Britain, where he was schooled in engineering and filmmaking. When he returned to Indonesia in 1981 after 12 years abroad, he got a massive case of culture shock as he confronted opposition to...
Eros sees DeTik's role as essentially constructive. "My enemy is not the government," he says. "It is backwardness. The quality of our education and social services does not match the modern facades of our buildings. Our physical development is rapid, but our intellectual development is limited."
Despite its audacity, some observers are convinced that DeTik is getting high-powered support -- perhaps from the military. "You don't get this kind of information unless someone hands it to you," says an Indonesian government official. Now that the government has issued its latest warning to the brash journal...