Jakarta International Literary Festival or JILF is an annual

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held at Jakarta in

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. The goal of the festival is to promote Indonesian literature in international literary platforms. The first literary festival was taken place at the

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, which was initiated by Jakarta Arts Council. The ''Jakarta Arts Council'' is an organization founded by Indonesian artists, which had been officially stated by then

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, on June 17, 1969. Authors from Asia and Africa are to participate in the festival.

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