Tedjabayu
His diary is not a monologue, and not a soliloquy: even in the narrowest of cells and in the most cruel oppression—particularly in Nusabambangan, the camp that was actually even worse than Buru—his voice was one of many.
Goenawan Mohamad
March 8, 2021
Who is a beast now, who is a man
How long before the execution
— Anna Akhmatova.
TEDJABAYU has died, like the proverbial tiger that leaves behind its brilliant stripes. He departed, forever, just a few days after his book Mutiara di Padang Ilalang (Pearl in the Prairie) was launched.
The seed of the book was planted before 1978 in the form of a diary that he wrote in secret while incarcerated in the New Order&rsquo
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