Going with the Flow

President Sukarnos speech changed Siswonos life.

June 28, 2004

JAKARTA, 1962. Traveling by train, a youth left for Yogyakarta. No seats were available, but he was determined, so he sat atop the railway coach. He had one purpose in mind: to listen to President Sukarno's speech on wrestling West Irian back. The youth was Siswono Yudhohusodo, 61 years of age today, a vice-presidential candidate accompanying presidential candidate Amien Rais. "I remember that, at the beginning of the 1960s, Bung Karno

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