Danarto died the night of April 11, 2018, a few hours after he was hit by a motorbike in heavy traffic at south Tangerang, as he was walking. I imagine that at that moment he-as usual-was engrossed in something he was looking at: streetlights, a political poster, shop signs, street-stall fare. He was a boy aged 77: he always loved learning new things.

From when we first met in 1963 I saw in Danarto a handsome face and a calm person who could mov