The Land of the Knife-Happy People

Becoming a stabbing victim is apparently a sign of manliness in Palembang.

March 18, 2003

Mati dem asal ngetopLet me die but let me be famous was a motto well embedded in the mind of Marzuki, 21, who believed that death by stabbing was a sign of manliness. During an organ music concert put on by his neighbor at Sungaitawar I, Kelurahan 29 Ilir, Palembang, South Sumatra, on March 8, he jumped up on the stage to dance.

Fired up by strong drink, he got a little carried away with his gyrations and bumped into the young man behind him, who

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