HIS critiques are still sharp. His ideas remain as fresh as ever. Last Thursday, Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra delivered a moving cultural oration at the Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) Arts & Cultural Center, on the occasion of the Jakarta Academys award presentation to dancer Retno Maruti.

No wonder other men watch with envy at his firm and solid physique, even though Rendra, born Willibrodus Surendra Broto, and at times known as the Peacock, turned 70 years