A Sketch in a Cracked Frame

Thirty-nine children were among the victims of the Kanjuruhan tragedy. They got trampled and were suffocated to death.

Mustafa Silalahi

October 10, 2022

ON Friday, September 30, the day before the Kanjuruhan tragedy, Anggara Putra Pratama drew a half-body sketch of himself. Strangely, drawing was not even the hobby of the 13-year-old junior high school second grader. But that day, he was so engrossed in drawing that he stayed home and completed his sketch.

Once he was done drawing, Angga—as he was called—wrote down his name and signed the picture before tugging it in a dusty plastic

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