Tales of Travellers

A trend seems to have sprung up for fiction writers to set more than an odd story or two somewhere in the Indonesian archipelago.

April 17, 2001

One day as the flag of reform flutters gallantly in the air, Djody was dumfounded by a portrait of the past. History has revealed a piece of news and photos of suspected PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) supporters standing in line ready to face execution in Madiun, East Java. The closely guarded secret vaults of history were giving way and news was filtering out. Djody was beginning to inquire about the life of his grandfather who was mobbed to

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