Endless Restlessness
SOE Hok Gie died young. At the age of 27, on Mount Semeru he found his eternal quiet. Soe Hok Gie was a young man whose heart was easily touched by the suffering of others, easily set afire by injustice; a young man who craved change but met with all sorts of hypocrisy at the end. Tempo traces his steps and captures his personality through the testimonies of his friends. Soe Hok Gie may have died young, but now, Nicholas Saputra has immortalized him as an icon, through a movie entitled Gie.
July 19, 2005
THE event still sticks in the mind of Herman Lantang, 65. "Man, we descend together. I'll wait for you here," said Soe Hok Gie.
Soe Hok Gie was resting in a niche. He shivered ` with cold. The air on Mount Semeru was chilly then, December 16, 1969. From Ranu Kumbolo, a lake on Mount Semeru, Herman Lantang, Aristides Katoppo, Soe Hok Gie, Idhan Lubis, Freddy Lasut, Rudi Badil, Abdurachman, and Wiyana had walke
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