The main author of «Ada Apa dengan Cinta», «Anak Jalanan», «Aneka Baca», «Baca Yuk», and «Serba-Serbi Nusantara» is Lita Sembiring.
«The Indonesian Way» has two authors. The main author is Dr. George Quinn from the Australian National University. The secondary author is Lita Sembiring.
Dr. George Quinn
Dr George Quinn (born Te Kuiti, New Zealand, 1943) first visited Indonesia in 1966 during the turmoil surrounding the fall of President Soekarno and the rise to power of General Soeharto. Between 1967 and 1970 he taught English at Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga, Central Java, and in 1971 he enrolled as an undergraduate student at Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta, completing a Bachelor of Arts (Sarjana Muda) degree in Indonesian language and literature at the end of 1973.
Dr Quinn was the first Australian or New Zealander to gain a degree from an Indonesian university. The degree included a component of studies in modern Javanese and old Javanese. Javanese language, literature and society became his abiding interest. In 1984 he completed a PhD in Javanese literature at the University of Sydney.
Between 1974 and 1990 Dr Quinn taught Indonesian at the University of Sydney, moving to Charles Darwin University in 1991, then to the Australian National University in 1995. Between 2001 and his retirement in 2008 Dr. Quinn was Head of the Southeast Asia Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He has a native-speaker level command of Indonesian and Javanese. He is the author of The Novel in Javanese (KITLV Press, 1991) and The Learner’s Dictionary of Today’s Indonesian (Allen & Unwin, 2001), plus many scholarly papers and an English translation of the Indonesian-language novel The Rape of Sukreni (Lontar, 2003).
Adopted from: https://www.70yearsindonesiaaustralia.com/academics-and-alumni/dr-george-quinn
