Ahok is Back
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is a controversy without end. After all the political turbulence that ended with him in jail, now he is back. His book, Call me BTP: Ahok’s Psychological Journey at the Brimob HQ, the story of his experiences while he was imprisoned, was launched this week and is bound to trigger a new debate.
Tempo
February 18, 2020
BASUKI'S life has been a roller coaster. While pursuing his career as a regional head and a member of the legislature at Senayan, he had to get by in a world full of intrigues. The choice was to deceive or be deceived—politics with the most banal of faces. He switched parties, attacked and was attacked in an arena that—whether he knew it or not—is very dangerous: identity politics.
It began with a speech he gave at Thousand Isl
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