HE never completed his engineering studies at the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and he was jailed three times when he was in his twenties. By 1978, however, Harry Roesli, who likes to dress in black, was on his way to achieving recognition in three ways: as a `rebel,' as a fierce critic of the country's politicians, and for his music.

Even when times changed following Suharto's fall in 1998, Roesli was still being his `rebe