Yuli Ismartono
Executive Editor of Tempo English Edition.

IT is not known whom American television personality Ted Koppel was referring to when he said in an interview sometime ago that, “to face despair and not give in to it, that’s courage.” He might as well have been describing Aung San Suu Kyi who, on her 64th birthday last week, has spent the past 13 years under house arrest, most of them in solitary confinement. Worse, if Myan