Rahman Tolleng—Imagining Subversion
To the end of his life, Rahman Tolleng kept a distance from power.
Tempo
February 4, 2019
RAHMAN Tolleng was a subject who had always remained at the peripherals of subversion and ambiguity. He had a need to rein in his strong passion for politics, and he often tamped it down quickly through his own sense of ethics and self-criticism. Once, a few years back, he stated the government was incompetent and could not be hoped for. When asked: in that case why don’t we just topple it, Boss, while it is weak? Rahman replied: if we topp
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