Today I was reminded of Samadi, a skinny man who is probably dead now, for 16 years ago he was already 60, and he was poor, and hard done by.

Actually, he once owned a plot of land and a rice-field in the village of Nglanji, district of Kemusu, Boyolali. But in 1987 he had to give up this possession of his. He lived in the area of Kedung Ombo.

The state had decided in 1969 that a huge dam was to be built in this area. The Serang River, 90