Not long after the Malari incident erupted, Tempo published four pages of photographs of the riots. There were no captions or explanations. The only text was the heading. There was no need for explanations because, apart from the fact that the riots were still fresh in readers' minds, two Tempo photographers, Ed Zoelverdi and Syahrir Wahab, where able to perfectly capture the atmosphere on the streets.

They were able to do so because they had be