Empty Spaces at the Dining Table
In a photo essay of hope and sorrow, Raharjo Waluyo Jati, abducted but returned by the army’s special forces, has documented the yearnings felt by the families of his fellow abducted activists, whose whereabouts remain unknown until today.
August 21, 2001
If someone dearest to us dies, will time be the quick healer of our sorrow? A number of parents in several places in Indonesia share a common feeling. Uncertainty about their children who have been kidnapped only makes it hard for them to erase from memory anything related to the missing children. Who abducted them and why? Where are they now? Alive or dead?
The belongings of their missing children will always torture them, increasing their ti
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