#Novel dilan pidi baiq series

At the end of the story, Sandy changes her hair and dress style, more like Danny, showing that she finally embraces his world. The story line reminds me of the Hollywood musical classic Grease about a teen romantic relationship between Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), a schoolgirl, and Danny (John Travolta), a member of motorbike club. It explores love, high school life, solidarity among youth and conflicts between peers and with older generations.

#Novel dilan pidi baiq series

The Dilan film series is based on the best-selling trilogy of novels, Dilan, written by Pidi Baiq. In the film, the figures of DilanвЂ™s and MileaвЂ™s mothers are busy managing the households and fully support the children while their husbands, both in the army, are often absent.ДЄ scene where DilanвЂ™s mother tells Milea that police arrested Dilan because he took his fatherвЂ™s gun to a fight subtly describes the reality of the military presence in civil life during the New Order regime. Feminist scholar Julia Suryakusuma called this governmentвЂ™s agenda вЂњ the State IbuismвЂќ. WomenвЂ™s role under the Soeharto regime was to manage the household, educate the children, making sure that home was safe for young generations to grow to become men with Pancasila values, IndonesiaвЂ™s state ideology. The same government also encouraged a politically conscious act to define womenвЂ™s identity in Indonesia as housewives. Millions of people became victims of the New Order regime. These young Indonesians did not experience life under the oppressive Soeharto government. The children born during IndonesiaвЂ™s period of democratisation are now in their late teens or early twenties, the demographic for the Dilan series teen flick. A window on IndonesiaвЂ™s New OrderДЄfter more than 30 years, SoehartoвЂ™s dictatorship crumbled in 1998. In Dilan, writer Pidi Baiq and director Fajar Bustomi attempt to subtly portray the culture and politics of the New Order era using the genre of romantic teen flicks.