1945, 1966, 1998…

THESE numbers are becoming names now. Each of them names a historical change: the first, the birth of the Republic of Indonesia; the second, the collapse of Sukarno’s rule, and the third, the fall of the Suharto regime

In other words, each of these numbers no longer means merely a year. Each written figure refers to a grand event: events that made an era break with that which went before it: when a situation collapses and