Soe Tjen Marching (born April 23, 1971 in

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, Indonesia) is a writer, academician, activist, and a composer of

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music from Indonesia. In 1998, she won national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy. Her compositions have been played in

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and

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. Her work has been released on the CD ''Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia'', played by pianist

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. In her musical career, she has been mainly an autodidact. Besides being a composer, Marching is also a creative writer and a

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teaching

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. She completed her PhD at

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in Australia. Her book, ''The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women'' was published by The

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(2007).Marching, Soe Tjen ''The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women. Lewiston (N.Y.), Queenston (Canada), Lampeter (Wales): The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007'' She has also won several creative writing competitions in Australia and has been published in Australia, the

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and the

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. She is married to Angus Nicholls, a literary scholar at

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, London. Her novel, ''Mati Bertahun yang Lalu'', was published by

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(Jakarta - Indonesia) in November 2010. Her book about Indonesian women ''Kisah di Balik Pintu'' was published by Ombak in 2011 and her book about a woman suffering from

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, ''Kubunuh di Sini'', was published by Gramedia in 2013. In 2017, her book on the 1965 genocide in Indonesia entitled ''The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia'', was published by

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University Press. In 2009, Soe Tjen founded a magazine in Indonesia called ''Majalah Bhinneka'' (Bhinneka Magazine), which promotes critical thinking about gender, politics and religions. Soe Tjen has written several essays on women, Indonesian politics, and religions in

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and

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* https://archive.today/20121212124117/http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/bio.php3 * https://web.archive.org/web/20070203232207/http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/ * http://unjobs.org/authors/soe-tjen-marching * https://web.archive.org/web/20070720132131/http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/apsa/pn/pn27/pn27_marching.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20110707000153/http://www.musikontakt.ch/neuheiten/MK_2005-09.pdf * http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6994&pc=9 * http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/marching.html * http://www.pulp.net/fiction/biogs/marching-soe-tjen.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20080719180319/http://www.colloquy.monash.edu.au/issue007/marching.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Marching, Soe Tjen Indonesian composers Indonesian people of Chinese descent People from Surabaya Indonesian feminists Indonesian journalists Indonesian women journalists Indonesian activists Indonesian women activists Indonesian women novelists Indonesian novelists Indonesian essayists Living people 1971 births