Mintardja, S.H.

Api di bukit Menoreh [Fire on Menoreh mountain: vol.77. (Yogyakarta : Badan Penerbit Kedaulatan Rakyat, 1975)

This book belongs to a genre of popular Indonesian fiction: Javanese martial arts (silat) stories with historical settings. These multi-volume stories fuse Javanese cultural lore and mythology with history from the period of the fourteenth century Majapahit and later Mataram kingdoms, and draw on Javanese historical chronicles such as the Babad Tanah Jawi.

S.H. Mintardja is one of the most popular authors of silat stories. He comes from Yogyakarta in Central Java and his stories were originally serialised in the local newspaper, Kedaulatan Rakyat. Api di Bukit Menoreh is his best known work and was recently turned into a serial soap opera by the Indonesian television station, Indosiar.

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