Between Facts and Fiction
There are two major scenarios: love and authoritarianism. The former was initiated by police, and the latter is the prevailing conviction in society. Both are contaminated by fiction.
September 12, 2006
THE photo shop house at Samalo village, kilometer 13 on Jalan Parangtritis is destroyed, with debris scattered here and there. The late May earthquake left only a small signboard dangling gloomily from the iron post by the road, bearing the words Krisna Foto. Here was the place where the late Fuad Mohammad Syafruddin, reporter of Bernas daily in Yogyakarta, used to live.
In that house on August 13, 1996 the man, fondly called Udin, was attacked by
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