Guerrilla War in the Forests of Priangan

Together with his family and his followers, Kartosoewirjo was able to survive in the jungle from 1949 till 1962. Tempo attempts to retrace the old guerrilla routes.

August 18, 2010

SARJONO Kartosoewirjo—the son of the late Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosoewirjo—sat upright in his seat and turned up the volume of the tape recorder. The voice of John Denver could be heard singing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Almost heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains

Shenandoah River…

The car he was driving entered a mountain range on the outskirts of Bandung. “I was a jungle child. I was born and raised in the forest,” said

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