A Farewell to Sidelines 

THE April 3-9, 2023 edition of Tempo English presents Goenawan Mohamad’s farewell from Sidelines after 46 years of appearing every week in the magazine.

I was born in 1960, and have read Tempo regularly since 1983. Every time the magazine reached my hand, I always turned to the Sidelines (in the Indonesian printed Tempo, the column is called Catatan Pinggir—Ed.) to read it first. I don’t