People’s Rage

WHEN I saw police repression against the protests demanding the dissolution of the House of Representatives, when I watched Affan Kurniawan’s body crushed under a tactical vehicle from the Jakarta Metro Police Mobile Brigade, I recalled a poem by Hartojo Andangdjaja.

In October 1961, the poet, born in Solo, Central Java, was teaching at a public junior high school in Pasaman, West Sumatra, when he wrote Rakjat (The People). Its third sta