SA’IH, 86, was sitting on a worn-out mat, inhaling clove cigarette smoke now and again. On that Wednesday morning last week, he wore a black cap with a white safari shirt and brown pants. He had his back to the monument of Rawagede Struggle in Rawagede village, Balongsari hamlet, Rawamerta, Karawang, West Java.

The bespectacled senior occasionally glanced at a man and a woman who were sweeping in a cemetery complex, part of the monument. “I