In Memoriam
Tempo
March 8, 2005
SO many deaths, but at the death of someone of importance, there is something different in that loss: a rediscovery.
Kuntowijoyo the novelist and Semsar Siahaan the artist both died two weeks ago, of different causes, and in different places. The population of Indonesia's sparsely inhabited art world suddenly shrank. But then we knew, we remembered: they made creative work, and every creative work refuses to participate in the opposition of
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