Explosive Daze

When ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary events, it changes their lives, and sometimes kills them.

January 30, 2001

Home and school are the only two worlds of Ahmad Taufik, who discovered grenades planted on the railway line near his home in Bekasi in early January. Opik (the nickname of the 15-year-old boy) no longer needs to tend to cows after school. Emis, his father, has hired an ojek (a motorcycle taxi) driver to take him to and from his junior high school in Lemahabang, Bekasi, each day.

That is not all. Two plainclothes policemen keep watch over Opik.

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