Remembering The May 1998 Tragedy

May 18, 2011

Jennie S. Bev

  • The writer is an academic and author based in Northern California. She can be reached at JennieSBev.com

    EVERY May, my mood becomes somber. Thirteen years ago, in 1998, mobs destroyed, torched, and looted Chinese-Indonesians’ business and personal properties. My parent’s house in Central Jakarta was literally saved by a mosque, as the mob backed down soon after. And had I not received a call from my brother-in-law that stopped

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