The Man in Black
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
A moustachioed man riding a black horse arrived at dusk galloping from Yogyakarta to pay a visit to Kiai Abdullah Anshor in Wonosobo, Central Java. He was Tjokroaminoto.
“Kiai Tjokro looked knightly,” said Haji Mahfudz on Sunday a fortnight ago. The villagers used to address the son of Kiai Abdullah Anshor as “Haji Maful.”
Kiai Abdullah Anshor was Wonosobo’s Sarekat Islam figure. Mahful, 84, recalled Tjokro as a tall big man. Mahful�
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