Waktu kita kecil, ada miliaran hal yang kita tidak tahu, tapi justru dalam ketidaktahuan itu kita menemukan kebebasan bertualang dalam kepala, mencari jawaban sesuka hati, seringnya bermain-main dengan imajinasi. Lalu kita tumbuh dewasa, dan semesta pelan-pelan menunjukkan realitas, makin banyak yang kita tahu maka makin banyak pula yang kita tidak tahu. Hidup tidak lagi sesimpel dulu, pertanyaan-pertanyaan baru terus muncul, bahagia tidak lagi sesederhana dulu, segala riuh dan bising di kepala tidak mau berhenti, berandai-andai tentang besok, tentang nanti. Rangkaian tulisan dan ilustrasi di buku ini hadir bukan untuk mengajari. Kami hanya ingin menemani sama-sama melangkah, dalam upaya mencari makna dan bahagia dengan mengingat yang perlu diingat.
Authors
IKA NATASSA is an Indonesian author who is also a banker at the largest bank in Indonesia and the founder of LitBox, the first literary startup of its kind in the country, which combines the concept of mystery box and onine promotions for writers. She loves writing since since was a little kid and finished writing her first novel in English at the age of 19. She is best known for writing a series of popular novels focusing on the lives of young bankers in Indonesia. Her debut novel A Very Yuppy Wedding is published in 2007, and she has released six books since: Divortiare (2008), Underground (2010), Antologi Rasa (2011), Twivortiare (2012), dan Twivortiare 2 (2014), and Critical Eleven (2015). A Very Yuppy Wedding is the Editor's Choice of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine in 2008, and she was also nominated in the Talented Young Writer category in the prestigious Khatulistiwa Literary Award in the same year. She loves to experiment with writing methods, Twivortiare and Twivortiare 2 are the two novels she wrote entirely on Twitter. Antologi Rasa and Twivortiare are currently being adapted into feature films by two of the most prominent production houses in Indonesia. Natassa is also one of the finalists of Fun Fearless Female of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine. In 2008, she was awarded with The Best Change Agent at her company for her active role in corporate culture implementation in the bank, and in 2010 she was awarded for 2010 Best Employee Award. Her success in maintaining a career at the bank whilst pursuing writing as her other passion led to her being awarded awarded as the Women Icon by The Marketeers in 2010. Out of the love of books, in 2013 she founded LitBox, a brand new concept she's in introducing to readers in Indonesia. It's the first literary startup company of its kind, aiming to provide readers with recommended books, to help writers get their writings read by people, and to help publishers introduce new talents to the market. On July 2014, she commenced a social movement campaign to promote the joy of reading called Reading is Sexy, so far supported by Indonesian and regional public figures such as Acha Septriasa, Jason Godfrey, Hamish Daud Wyllie, Karina Salim, Ernest Prakasa, Mouly Surya, and many more. Twitter and Instagram: @ikanatassa LinkedIn: Ika Natassa Personal website: www.ikanatassa.com
Naufal Abshar is a promising young Indonesian artist, born in 1993 in Bandung. Trained in Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore), in partnership with Goldsmith London, Naufal has participated in various group exhibitions in places as diverse as Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Venice, Washington D.C., New York City, and Lithuania. In 2013, he won an award from AMI (Anugerah Musik Indonesia) for the best Graphic Design to a music album namely Mantra-Mantra (Kunto Aji). He is considered as one of Indonesia’s top collected artist, placing with many important bluechip collections, and has steadily grown his collector base locally and overseas across the decade. Instagram: @naufalabshar
