Dyah Sujiran, aka Sipon, remembered chatting with her husband, Wiji Thukul, for the last time. It was sometime in mid-May 1998, during the outburst of riots in Jakarta and Solo. A Solo People's Democratic Party (PRD) activist rushed in to inform her that Thukul would contact her through her neighbor's telephone.

At the other end, Thukul asked how his wife and his two children, Fitri Nganthi and Fajar Merah, were doing. Then Sipon fired Thukul ques