January

January 26, 2010

EVERY generation wants its own revolution. In January. January 15, 1974. Jakarta was shaken, tense, and the atmosphere was frightening. Thousands of people were demonstrating, trailing the streets, burning dozens of cars, and destroying anything with a Japanese logo. For a while leading up to this—back when the press was not yet tightly muzzled by the authorities—student activists and intellectuals had been voicing their criticism of Japanese

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