MEMORIES flowed one after another from an old tin suitcase. Memories of a woman forced to become the concubine of a Dutch man, memories of the flower of Sidoarjo who was sold by her father for 25 gulden at the age of 14. “I wore this red shawl the first time I met the Big Boss/Tuan Besar Kuasa,” she said. Slowly, she pulled the shawl from the suitcase and draped it over her body.

The women’s name was Sanikem, daughter of the town clerk Sa