Who were the actors on October 28, 1928? Youth. Not representatives of ‘ethnicity’ or social class. Nor were they actually representing an age group, even though those young people referred to themselves as "we, the sons and daughters of Indonesia." "Youth has no age," Picasso is supposed to have said. On that day, ‘youth’ was energy.

With that energy, at a time when the nationalist movement was hammering away at the colonial edifice of powe