Mall
There is no equity of pleasure and greed, but there is equity in the skin cancer and rising sea levels that swallow islands as the earth warms and the Poles melt.
Goenawan Mohamad
November 28, 2022
IF you stand in a corner of Senayan City Mall, you realize how the night has changed, just as the world has changed. Here in this wide air-conditioned space, the electric lighting is never turned off. Neon advertisements move incessantly, music infiltrates via hundreds of iPods to the most intimate spaces, and ample alleyways display meter upon meter of shop fronts with clothing and food.
Ten—no, five—years ago, the night was not l
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