The Orator in Decline

October 21, 2003

IT was such a long day at the Bogor Palace, October 6, 1965. Before I really awakened that Wednesday morning, Hardono, one of the security staff members of State Minister Nyoto, knocked on my lodging door in the Cikini area, Central Jakarta, which was only a house away from the Tjakrabirawa (presidential guard) official residence, where Lt. Col. Untung, leader of the September 30, 1965 Movement, lived.

Bung Nyoto invites you to the Bogor Palace, s

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