Published: Suara Sosialis 1998
Source: Suara Sosialis website
Transcribed & marked up: Emerson Tung
"Back home, in 1997 I began an Indonesian-language email magazine called Suara Sosialis (Socialist Voice), which became a six-year project to produce Marxist material in that language...
It was the first-ever Marxist website in the Indonesian language.
I could never have done this without help from an Indonesian comrade, Setiabudi, who lived in Melbourne and who cleaned up the texts in the way only a native speaker can do...
We also participated in a project putting the first Indonesian-language versions of key documents onto the web, including the Communist Manifesto and Lenin’s April Theses.
Each year, I went off to Indonesia with a new set of material, tightly laid out and laser-printed so that activists there could photocopy the texts as much as possible from the copies I provided. Thinking the Suharto regime might take an undesired interest in me, I used the pseudonym “Julian”. The name stuck, and that Julian guy developed a certain profile around the Indonesian left..."
--The highway is for gamblers: a poltical memoir, Tom O'Lincoln, 2017