Indonesia 2011: Hopes and Longing

December 28, 2011

IN the SEA Games arena last month, every time Indonesia's national anthem Indonesia Raya rang out and the nation's Red and White flag was raised, our longings were briefly assuaged. Yes, I do mean those longings that have for years been hidden within our breasts after this nation has seemed unable to anything when hit by its various storms: corruption, separatism, the collapse of our self-confidence, the series of failures met by Indonesia's athlete

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