Once the guns are put away…

—Chairil Anwar, “diary 1946”.

WAR (or violence) has limits. It ends, no matter how long it drags on. Were it to continue, it couldn’t solve all things. Once the guns are put away, and the destruction on both sides has become just a dusty memory, then we see that societies of human beings also hold seeds of friendship. Not just antagonism.

Because of this, “We hunt for meaning…” Chairil Anwar said in