WE live in a situation where the boundaries and demarcations between the oppressors and the oppressed, democracy and non-democracy, between heroes and losers, are breaking down and intermingling. But this is not a new phenomenon. In his epic novel This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer describes the mixing between the oppressed and the oppressors in a more subtle way through the fantasies of its main character, Minke. 

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