Treachery in the General's Parlor
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
In the Diponegoro Museum in Magelang, actor Landung Simatupang performed a dramatic reading about the capture of Prince Diponegoro.
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THE performance opened with a duel between two masked men, one dressed all in white, his opponent all in black. Riding astride hobby horses, they kicked at one another. A gamelan (traditional Javanese musical instrument) was being played while a white screen onstage displayed a picture of local people and Dutch officers.
The scene ended as a man mounted the bamboo platform at center stage. He wore black robes and a batik head-cloth wrapped around
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