But the blooming local literary scene aside, the search for information on Indonesian writers remains a challenging feat. For all the answers it can provide to mundane everyday questions, Google has little on the works and backgrounds of Indonesian writers other than those established names such as literary virtuosos Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Gunawan Moehammad, and the like.

It was this realization that inspired Valent Mustamin to create IDWRITERS.

https://jakartaglobe.id/culture/promoting-indonesian-writers/