Sutrisno was stunned one morning. The Surabaya native was greeted by unfamiliar sights as he stepped into the Blitar railway station a week ago last Wednesday. There were three jumbo-sized posters of Indonesias founding president Sukarno, plastered across the walls of the stations waiting hall and ticket counter area.

On each one of them, measuring 10 x 5 meters, Sukarno, born in Surabaya on June 6, 1901, a man who had proclaimed Indonesias indep