Professor Batak

Ojax Manalu worked as a gas station attendant before making it in the Batak Opera. Now he encourages young people to follow suit.

November 26, 2013

One by one, the benches at the Graha Wilian Soerjadi building at Indonesia Christian University in Jakarta were neatly rearranged. A Batak Opera performance titled Perempuan di Pinggir Danau (Woman at the Edge of the Lake) put on by the Batak Opera Training Center (PLOt) had just been concluded. Rinda Turnip appeared in a T-shirt and a pair of denim shorts. Moments earlier, the 19-year-old had been clad in the costume of the mother fish, one of t

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