One of the prisoners was a prominent Indonesian writer , Pramoedya Ananta Toer , who spent 14 years ( 1965 -- 1979 ) in prison , mostly on Buru .
One of the prisoners wrote there many of his novels .
One of the prisoners was a prominent Indonesian writer , Pramoedya Ananta Toer , who spent 14 years ( 1965 -- 1979 ) in prison , mostly on Buru , and wrote there many of his novels .