August 25, 2015 edition

The house is locked up and no one lives there. The doors and windowpanes are cream and light blue, but the panes have turned grimy and the walls are flaking.
Not many people realize that the house holds an important place in the nation's history.

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June 30, 2015 edition

In Indonesia, readers of literature know him as Vincent Mahieu, the author of Tjis and Tjoek, which was elegantly translated by H.B. Jassin in 1976. In the Netherlands, Tjalie Robinson is a man of letters, seen as an icon and guardian of Dutch-Indonesian culture, as well as the founder of Pasar Malam Tong Tong (Tong Tong Fair) and Tong Tong magazine.
Born Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon in Nijmegen, Gelderland, on January 10, 1911, Tjalie was just three months old when his parents returned to the Dutch East Indies. He lived in Jatinegara, East Jakarta, where he attended junior high school. A serious student, Tjalie was also fond of boxing.

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June 23, 2015 edition

Juliao Suarez alias Muhammad Yanto Soarez, 30, seemed confused. His gaze was vacant. For 22 years, he had not stepped foot in Timor-Leste, the land of his birth. That day, Monday, May 19, a Sriwijaya Air plane had carried him from Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, to Dili's Komoro Airport in Timor-Leste, en route to his home village of Bikaren, in Viqueque District. He was accompanied by National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) commissioner Sandra Moniaga and a figure from the Timor-Leste Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) team. Soon, he would be reunited with his birth family.

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