I don't know how I should see this part of the globe: expansive, unfamiliar, with jungles and sheer tall mountains and its sturdy people, silent. This territory has been on the map of Indonesia – the country that is so important in my life – since I was a child. I sang From Sabang to Merauke. But I sang it not with a sense of pride about this huge geographic spread, possibly useless. I sang it with a sense of gratitude that exclaimed,