This country was founded with dreams of friendship. But that was three quarters of a century ago.

We recall: towards August 17, 1945, when independence was in the air as an actuality ("now!" Bung Karno yelled on June 1 of that year), there was the belief: "In this liberated Indonesia we liberate our people!" as Bung Karno said. There was the hope that the Indonesian people had the full potential to become unfettered beings, because political independe