Decaying Times

February 20, 2001

It happened one afternoon in Madiun, in early December 1948. Communist leader Muso was killed. The military slaughtered alleged followers of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Ex-premier Amir Syarifudin, arrested by a battalion of Kemal Idris, was being moved from an internment camp in Kudus to a prison in Yogyakarta. The photographs are dated Madiun, December 4, 1948. Amir Syarifudin is sitting with a book in his hands, seemingly absorbed. Ho

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