Julia Suryakusuma
The writer is the author of Julia’s Jihad. She can be contacted at www.juliasuryakusuma.com

LAST week I received an invitation from the Goethe Haus in Jakarta to a screening of the film Tartuffe, a German silent film released in 1926, based on Moliere’s play of the same name.

Tartuffe is a social comedy of the kind for which Moliere was famous. Tartuffe is a religious hypocrite and impostor, who almost cheats a friend’