Equinox Publishing is a Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

-based publisher of books. Its first book, KRETEK: The Culture and Heritage of Indonesia's Clove Cigarettes by Mark Hanusz was launched on the vernal equinox, 21 March 2000 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta. Equinox has also published three works by Indonesia's renowned fiction writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemic and histories of his homeland and its people...

. see Asiaweek article

On 21 March 2007, Equinox Publishing released a series of out-of-print books using print on demand

Print on demand

Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...

 technology. Two of these titles were related to the rise of the Communist movement in Indonesia, and were blocked by Indonesia's Department of Customs and Excise. However, during the launch, Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh

Abdul Rahman Saleh

Abdul Rahman Saleh . He was Attorney General of Indonesia for the period 2004-2007. He graduated from Gadjah Mada University.-External links:...

gave the publisher verbal permission for the books to be distributed in Indonesia. see Jakarta Post article