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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
INDONESIA began with a void. Indonesia began with the word not.
On that morning of August 17, 1945, what happened was a dislocation. Suddenly, the image of collectivity (more often called a country or nation) that had been presented to the masses was overturned: an image that had been formed and tended by colonialism. Dutch rule collapsed with ease under Japanese attack, and the Japanese took over. But then, suddenly the Japanese lost. Suddenly, t
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