Descendants of Majapahit

NO one knows why in the Suharto-era the Attorney General’s Office always chose the month of August to send tapol (political prisoners) to Buru Island. The first group of tapol arrived on the island in August 1969. In this group were, among others, writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, journalist Hasyim Rachman, Tom Anwar, editor of the Jakarta daily Bintang Timur, and Oeyhaidjoen, a former member of the Provisional People’s Consultative Assembl

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