Wedange Wis Entek
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Tobang, tobang, wedange wis entek!" (Tobang, the tea is finished). This cry was frequently heard from the house of a penewua subdistrict-level official in the Yogyakarta 'administration'at Kretek, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The man shouting was Soewondo, Gen. Sudirman's personal physician who went along with Sudirman during the guerrilla warfare following the Dutch attack on Yogyakarta on December 19, 1948.
For almost a week Sudirman and his men stayed at a
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