Capturing the Tears of History
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
IT was a fragment of a nerve-racking evening in Jalan Kiai Tapa, Grogol. The atmosphere grew more alarming as the drizzle began. Black clouds transformed the New Order riot police, who with their combat shields were moving in to round up university students, into silhouettes resembling Darth Vader’s troops. Since noon that Tuesday the students clad in their blue jackets had staged demonstrations in their Trisakti Universi
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