'Red City' Rage

FOR nearly five hours, 19-year-old Bima Satria Putra endured a torrent of queries in the police interrogation room in Salatiga, Central Java. Police grilled the chief editor of the Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW) campus-based magazine Lentera with questions about an early October article published in the magazine titled 'Salatiga, the Red City'.

The day before Bima's questioning, police seized 14 copies of the magazine from the Godhong Pring cafe, located some three kilometers from the Satya Wacana campus. Police demanded that Bima and his team recall the 500 copies of the magazine already circulating within and outside the campus. "We told them we would not recall the magazine," Bima told Tempo.