Berita Kehilangan. Penghilangan paksa menyebabkan putusnya kisah kehidupan dengan penuh ketidakpastian. Hilang menyisakan tanda tanya dari asa yang tersisa. Ketiadaan yang dirasa harus disikapi dengan penguburan harapan atau harus selalu menghadirkan penantian. Di Indonesia, penghilangan paksa kerap terjadi dalam sejumlah momen dinamika sosial politik yang menjadi kisah dalam sejarah. Bentuk kejahatan kemanusiaan & Pelanggaran HAM Berat ini tercatat dalam sejumlah kasus. Bukan hanya kepada para aktivis di momen genting peralihan Orde Baru menuju Reformasi. Melainkan juga terjadi di banyak kasus lain sejak 1965 bahkan hingga momen yang terjadi di Papua pada tahun 2020. Nama rezim berganti, namun penghilangan paksa terus terjadi. KontraS yang hadir dengan semangat terlibat dalam penuntasan kasus penghilangan paksa dan berbagai pelanggaran HAM Berat serta ketidakadilan sejak 1998 kembali berupaya bersama banyak pihak untuk bersuara mengenai kegelisahan ini. Sejak Maret 2021, KontraS menyelenggarakan submisi terbuka cerita pendek dengan judul Berita Kehilangan. Setelah terkumpul 280 naskah, KontraS dan para kurator telah memilih 20 naskah untuk dijadikan antologi cerpen yang kini bisa dipesan untuk dimiliki oleh kamu semua. Sebagai salah satu cara menghadirkan obrolan-obrolan tambahan mengenai penghilangan paksa.
Authors
Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a writer, photographer, and also a film critic. He writes short stories, novel, even comic book. He has won numerous national and regional awards as a short-story writer. Also a journalist, he serves as editor of the popular weekly illustrated magazine Jakarta-Jakarta. His piece in this issue is an excerpt from his novel "Jazz, Parfum dan Insiden", published by Yayasan Bentang Budaya in 1996. Mailing-list Seno Gumira fans: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senogum...
Zaky Yamani was born in Bandung City, July 27th 1978. He worked as a journalist and editor for the Pikiran Rakyat daily from 2002 until 2016. He graduated with an MA in Journalism from Ateneo de Manila University assisted by a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (2006 - 2008). Zaky also writes fiction, in the form of novels and short-stories. Books published include Johnny Mushroom and Other Stories (2011), Thirst in the Water Field (2012), Coffee-bitter Comedy (2013), Bandar: Family, Blood, and Inherited Sins (2014), and Running Amok (2016). All of his books were written in Indonesian language In 2008, Zaky received the Developing Asia Journalism Award in Tokyo, Japan, for his investigative report about water in Bandung City. Then in 2009 he received the Adiwarta Award (Indonesia’s journalism award) for his investigative reports on Indonesia’s foreign debts. In 2010 he received a Mochtar Lubis Fellowship to write about water. The book was published with the title Thirst in Water Fields. Again in 2012 he received the Adiwarta Award for his in-depth article about graffiti. His first novel, Bandar: Family, Blood and Inherited Sins, was long-listed for the 2014’s Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa (a national award for fictional works in Indonesia). In 2015 he was invited to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. Zaky will publish a collection of novelletes titled Kepada Assad Aku Menitip Diri (To Assad I Entrusted Myself) in 2017. Zaky is also working on a new novel, a historical romance with fifteenth century Indonesia and Portugal as background. For this novel, Zaky joined the residency program organized by National Book Committee. He will be conducting research in Portugal.
