“…freedom is the right of all nations.”

IN the midst of the critical rebellion going on in Libya, and among all the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Syria, probably no one would know this sentence even exists. The people who drew up Indonesia’s Constitution in 1945 included those words in the Preamble, in a very different climate and conditions: their ‘freedom’ meant the ‘independence’ of a country or a people from coloniza