Warfare
Warfare has its own attraction. The ‘military’ are not always a group of stiff faces. And not only as on Army Day when the Indonesian Air Force gave an acrobatic display and about a thousand soldiers danced the Gemu Famire. There is also an imagining of attraction in the field of killing.
Goenawan Mohamad
October 29, 2019
LIKE football matches, warfare has an aesthetic—for some reason. At the least, it is photogenic, even (or because) of its brutality. In Robert Capa’s famous photography of the Spanish Civil War and James Nachtwey’s of Kosovo—or in the fictitious scenes of Game of Thrones—pictures depict a dark realism, yet at the same time are fascinating. In Indonesia, this does not surprise us. In shadow play performances, in the h
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