Another Side to Sidelines II
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Goenawan Mohamad’s SIDELINES titled Repeats TEMPO (June 18) was interesting enough. However, there seems to be some very fatal mistakes. Three times Goenawan wrote that on October 17, 1953 thousands of demonstrators, supported by the army, demonstrated in front of the Presidential Palace to force the disbandment of the parliaments. The year is wrong. It was not 1953, but 1952.
Four times Goenawan stated July 5, 1958. What he meant must ha
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