Balsam

Tempo

January 25, 2005

THE woman was tied to a tree all night long. The officer had interrogated her for almost an entire day without getting a single word of confession. She, a middle-aged member of the All-Indonesian Trade Union Association (SOBSI), had been stripped naked and flogged for several hours in front of the other prisoners, but had remained silent, and as night fell she was tied up. Her wrists were tied to the tree, her feet dangling, just touching the

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