Eliezer

You were involved, Richard, but I do not want the State to punish you. You have changed. You were the one who revealed this scandal, whatever your motive might have been.

Goenawan Mohamad

January 30, 2023

—for Richard Eliezer Pudihang Lumiu (who will not get to read this) 

STAND tall, Richard. You sat before the court, and left the trial as no longer a policeman-murderer. Your presence was a metamorphosis. You are an ambiguity.  

Before the judges, you were both a police officer and offender of the law; in the courtroom, you were a meeting point where justice and injustice, law and empathy, envy and compassion, met and clash

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