The Irrepressible Mochtar Lubis

The prison diary of journalist and government critic Mochtar Lubis was a sharp rebuke to Indonesia’s legal system.

June 24, 2008

The late Mochtar Lubis is arguably Indonesia’s best known, internationally acclaimed journalist and veteran political prisoner of two presidents. He claimed that some political prisoners got better treatment, depending on the issue the suspects were involved in. Lubis revealed this in his diary, published on May 2008, describing his time in 1975 at Nirbaya, the detention facility in East Jakarta for those who politically crossed Suharto, Indone

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