Fourteen Reflections on I la Galgo
August 26, 2005
Adriaan van der Staay
1. Immense Indonesia is immense not because its archipelago encompasses many longitudes. It is immense in its ability to keep secrets on every island, on every coast. Indonesia is not so much wide or long, as deep. In this I am not speaking about its people. Like every people in the world most Indonesian people are not much cognizant of secrets. But I am speaking of islands that keep secr