History seems to be always tinted with the vision of the writer or documenter, the power holders and the spirit of the time. Goenawan Mohamad in his keynote at a seminar on suspended histories last year in Amsterdam, suggested that "a good historian is like an origami artist. He builds a structure from what is ephemeral. Memories, like a piece of paper, easily flies away. And like a piece of paper it changes from time to time with you". Indeed, as