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The publisher’s note explains Jakarta’s historical spelling changes and former city names, while the translator’s note details idiomatic challenges such as pronoun absence in Indonesian, deliberate repetition, and how local Djakarta dialect flavor is handled in English. Guidance on transcription of Indonesian names and terms supports pronunciation approximation, preserving atmosphere and authorial intent.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Twilight in Djakarta  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>MOCHTAR LUBIS  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>translated from Indonesian by  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>CLAIRE HOLT  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>To Hally  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>to whom l owe a debt oflove  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>PUBLISHER’S NOTE  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>At the time the novel was written in the early 1960s, the city was spelt as Djakarta (1942–1972) . In 1972 the spelling changed to Jakarta as part of Indonesia ’s spelling reform. Indonesia ’s capital city has taken different names since it was first founded: Sunda Kelapa (397–1527), Jayakarta (till 1619) and Batavia (till 1942) .  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>CONTENTS  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Title Page  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Dedication Translator ’s Note Acknowledgements MAY  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>JUNE  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>JULY  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>AUGUST  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>SEPTEMBER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>OCTOBER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>NOVEMBER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>DECEMBER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>JANUARY  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Copyright  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>TRANSLATOR’S NOTE  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Translation or rather transposition into English of any other idiom naturally presents a great number of problems. Among those peculiarly related to Indonesian is the absence of a pronoun for it and the avoidance of pronouns you, he and she, including their possessive form. This often produces a repetitiousness in the naming of a subject or object. On the other hand it was, or may have been, the intention of the author to hammer away at a certain concept (e.g. truck, woman, stepmother, horse, etc.) , thus evoking a semi-obsessive or all-pervading presence. This translator was inclined to retain some repetitive structures wherever the boundary between the original idiomatic necessity and the stylistic intention seemed to overlap, and thus to retain the flavour of both language and style. The difficulty of finding some convincing equivalent to the colourful and phonetically idiosyncratic Djakarta dialect spoken by the uneducated city workers and the impossibility of rendering its full local flavour need not be belaboured. As for the transcription of Indonesian names and terms, the reader will come closer to their sound if he gives the vowels approximately the following sound-values: a as in father; e as in pet in closed, and as in gale in open, syllables; i as in see or pit; o as in law; and u as in boot.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The translator is deeply indebted to a generous friend, who does not wish to be named, for many excellent suggestions, incorporated in the final version, which he made after careful comparison of the Indonesian and English texts,  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The author thanks Arthur Koestler for permission to reproduce the following introductory quotation from Arrow in the Blue: An Autobiography.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>… Now this Wang Lun had one secret ambition in his life, but it took him fifty years of strenuous e fort to realize it. His ambition was to be able to behead a person with a stroke so swjft that, in accordance with the law of inertia, the victim s’ head would remain poised on his trunk, in the same manner as a plate remains undisturbed on the table if the tablecloth is pulled out with a sudden jerk.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Wang Lun s’ great moment came in the seventy-eighth year of his life. On that memorable day he had to dispatch sixteen clients from this world ofshadows to their ancestors. He stood as usual at the foot of the scafold, and eleven shaven heads had already rolled into the dust after his inimitable master-stroke. His triumph came with the twelfth man. When this man began to ascend the steps ofthe scafold, Wang Lun s’ sword flashed with such lightning speed across his neck that the man s’ head remained where it had been before, and he continued to walk up the steps without knowing what had happened. When he reached the top of the scafold, the man addressed Wang Lun asfollows:  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>‘Oh cruel Wang Lun, why do you prolong my agony of waiting when you dealt with the others with such merciful and amiable speed?’  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>When he heard these words, Wang Lun knew that the work of his life had been accomplished. A serene smile appeared on his features; then he said with exquisite courtesy to the waiting man:  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>‘Just kindly nod, please. ’  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>ARTHUR KOESTLER  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Arrow in the Blue  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>May  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>SAIMUNnothingTItGoHTENEDeat sincheis beltmornin. gHisAstndoimacht was  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>was rumbling with hunger again. He ’d had still early. 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