Julia Suryakusuma
The writer is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be contacted at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com

REMEMBER the expression “a picture paints a thousand words”?

If you’re a serious culture-vulture, you’ll know it was made into the hit song “If” by the group Bread in 1971 and was subsequently covered by Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, the group Westlife and even Telly Savalas (yes, the bald, lollipop-sucking NYPD detecti