"If we allow ourselves to labor in fear,
we add to the ranks of slavery"

Wiji Thukul vanished. Or perhaps he was intentionally made to 'disappear.' But his opposition never stopped. He spread 'confrontation' through his poetry, opposing the forces that took away people's freedoms, immobilized or sidelined 'slaves.' Mugiyanto, a 1998 pro-democracy activist, who was once kidnapped, quoted Mugiyanto's poetry in a column to remember the poet whose fate remains a