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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

THE past is like a Rorschach test: indistinct ink spots on pale paper which we interpret as we wish. These interpretations are used to make assumptions about our psychology.

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This is why history is a collection of interpretations about what is ambiguous—interpretations that speak more about us today that what actually happened before.

This does not mean there is no point in remembering the past. At least for a conversation.

So let us try to remember the fifth of July, 1959.

On that day, President Sukarno proclaimed a huge change for Indonesia: he decreed a new political system, which he called ‘Guided

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