Blind Ignorance

ON December 3, 2008, I flew from South Kalimantan to Jakarta on a Lion Air plane. As I was about to board the plane, an officer asked me if I was sick after seeing the way I walked and how I held on to a friend.

I told the officer that I was blind. Knowing my condition, that officer asked me to sign a letter stating that the airliner takes no responsibility if something happened to me during the flight. It means that I was consi