If Trees Could Talk…

Abdurrahman Wahid's supporters in East Java took their fury out on poor defenseless trees. Why?

February 13, 2001

An Indonesian musician once wrote a funny song. It went like this: "If the moon could talk… It would never lie…" The moon cannot lie because it is unable to talk. Humans, from construction workers to presidents, talk a lot, and much of it consists of lies.

And if a tree were able to talk, what would it say? Maybe it would be something like this: "I'm the most effective tool to express anger." This is just a guess. None of us can speak the

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