Goenawan Mohamad *) Speech read at a farewell evening with Sri Mulani Indrawati in Jakarta, May 19, 2010

TONIGHT we will try to bid farewell to Sri Mulyani.

I say “try” because often, and especially on this night, we realize that people can quickly say “hello,” but they can never say as quickly, “farewell.”

Perhaps it is because we don’t really know the meaning of “farewell.”

This is especially the case with Sri Mulyani. W