ROSIHAN ANWAR
Cheerful and Not Shallow

To Rosihan Anwar, 87, Sutan Sjahrir was not a rigid person. “We would joke around each time I met him. But this doesn’t mean he was shallow [in his knowledge],” says this senior journalist. The proof: Sjahrir had known in the 1940s there would be a Cold War between the West and East. He knew ahead of the other Indonesian leaders. “But he was also a figure the Dutch colonial government feared,” says