Goenawan Mohamad

IN the lives of humans, age is not an interesting topic for discussion—especially for someone my age. The comedian Groucho Marx said, “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”

So, it is easy to get older, as long as you don’t die quickly.

But in the life of a magazine, not dying quickly is something to be proud of. This is especially the case with Tempo