Thugs in Indonesian Short Stories

Harjito Harjito

2018

Abstract

This paper aims to know how the figure of thugs contained in the short story of Indonesia. There are three short stories that become material objects in this paper, namely "Kebakaran di Koto - Fire in Koto" by Ismet Fanany, "Kampung Rampok - Robber Village" by Yudhi Heriwibowo, and "Tempurung – Shell" by Beni Setia. There are five figures of thugs in the three short stories, namely Kim, Amran, Maman, Budiman, and Lelaki Berasap. A thug is a figure attached to the profession of murderers, drunks, pimps, thieves, burners, and cannibals. Social relations of thugs as a protector of the similarity and development of a region into a city. The findings in this study are thugs related to the world of murder or violence precisely beings and obedient to women. Kim is very obedient and a creature to Mother. Amran and Maman actually utilized by Nurmi to maintain the security of stalls and interests of Nurmi. Literary texts are not just texts that portray the other faces of reality, but also record the events and social developments that occur in society.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Harjito H. (2018). Thugs in Indonesian Short Stories.In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH, ISBN 978-989-758-343-8, pages 439-444. DOI: 10.5220/0007422204390444

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ancosh18,
author={Harjito Harjito},
title={Thugs in Indonesian Short Stories},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH,},
year={2018},
pages={439-444},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007422204390444},
isbn={978-989-758-343-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH,
TI - Thugs in Indonesian Short Stories
SN - 978-989-758-343-8
AU - Harjito H.
PY - 2018
SP - 439
EP - 444
DO - 10.5220/0007422204390444