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September 29, 2009 edition

Tan Joe Hok made history half a century ago. He was the first Indonesian badminton player to become an All England champion and win an Asian Games gold. Along with six other shuttlers—Ferry Sonneville, Eddy Yusuf, Olich Solihin, Lie Po Djian, Tan King Gwan, and Njoo Kim Bie—Tan also brought the Thomas Cup to the country for the first time .
He is now 72. Retired from badminton for decades, Tan has struggled in another field: tearing down the wall of discrimination that left him feeling sidelined and at the same time forgotten.
Amid meager achievements today, Indonesia’s badminton circles need to reflect on the story of Tan. To Tempo, he relates his colorful biography.

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July 7, 2009 edition

HE came from an upper middle-class family, part of the government bureaucracy in Solo. Towards the end of the 1950s he joined the air force and began a career that later went badly wrong. It was the G30S affair that destroyed Air Commodore Omar Dani’s career. He was accused of being involved in the Indonesian Communist Party rebellion and thereafter was to spend a third of his life as a political prisoner. Tempo recently interviewed Omar who is now 85 years old after he survived a critical bout of Hepatitis C. He recounted to Tempo the events of the September 30 affair and his relationship with Suharto.

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