1918-1919: Spreading Like Brush Fire
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The Spanish Flu is the deadliest pandemic in history, wiping out tens of millions of people between 1918 and 1919. It was also a nightmare in the Dutch East Indies.
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FRITZ Basiang was 13 years old when many people in his village of Saluputti, Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, suddenly died in a very short time. Illness spread in those highlands, but no doctors were there to take care of the sick. “We had just buried someone in the morning, but by noon another person had died. After that burial, somebody else had died in the afternoon,” Basiang said in A Toraja Pilgrimage: The Life of Fritz Basiang, wri
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