What do we remember about May 20, 1908? A photo of Mas Wahidin Sudirohusodo. The “Javanese doctor” wears the male Javanese traditional batik headdress called a blangkon framing his calm face. A graduate in the early 20th century from the medical school known as STOVIA, he became the icon of the awakening of Indonesian nationalism.

But group memory is always deficient. Historical records of the time mention that students at this medical schoo