THE calendar at the School of Law, North Sumatra University, where Deliar Noer lectured showed the year 1964. It’s less than two years after his return from Cornell University, New York, as the first Indonesian to gain a doctorate in politics. In his lectures, he openly opposed the concept of Nationalism-Religion-Communism (Nasakom) taught by (first president) Bung Karno. “It’s very contradictory and beyond scientific accountabi