A ‘Man of Action’ is Gone
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Eminent economist and politician, Sjahrir, passed away last Monday. He was a man of principle, an activist, a scholar and an optimist to the end.
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AFTER four weeks of battling lung cancer at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Sjahrir finally succumbed and breathed his last on Monday, July 29, just a little after 9am. He was 63 years old.
He led a full life, always managing to be where the action was. Sjahrir’s name first made headlines during the New Order’s infamous January 15, 1974 Malari tragedy. Although he was no longer a university student at the time, along with other you
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