the existence of universal humanism in the reform era of indonesian literarycriticism

The aesthetic of universal humanism is a cultural production of power struggles in the arena ofindonesian literary criticism. the agent who played an important role in achieving universal humanismwas the cultural manifest (manikebu), which extended into the jakarta arts council (jac). this studyhighlights the reality of literary criticism in the reform era, without undermining the aesthetic history ofuniversal humanism as a medium or discourse echoed by the cultural manifest group and succeeded afterthe collapse of the old order. jac as an agent currently controls the arena of indonesian literary criticismseeking to cultivate economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital. these capitals are used as a tool incarrying out the practice of symbolic violence in the arena of literary criticism. this then it establishes ahabitus which aimed at enacting the aesthetic standards of universal humanism literary criticism. thehabitus space is seen through the contest and literary criticism class conducted by jac. the contestinitiates enactment on parties involved, both the contestant jury and/or supporters of jac's literarycriticism class, as well as participants who take part in the literary criticism contest.