 Released in response to the commercial success of Mohammad Kasim 's collection Teman Doedoek , Kawan Bergeloet has been reprinted several times and received positive critical appraisal . Soeman , together with Kasim , has since been considered a pioneer of the Indonesian short story . The Dutch scholar of Indonesian literature A. Teeuw writes that the collection is Soeman 's most interesting contribution to Indonesian literature . 
