THE Jakarta-Beijing Axis was both a political term and a memory. Together with the Jakarta-Pyongyang Axis and the Jakarta-Hanoi Axis, it was part of Sukarno's grand ambition to bring together the countries in the southern hemisphere as the new emerging forces. History tells us that this ambition failed to materialize as it went against the dreams of his generals.

Close to half a century later, Oscar Motulloh, a photographer of Indonesia's An