A Warrior on and off the field
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Chairil Anwar did not write poems just from his imagination. Being at the center of the revolution, he had a firsthand look at the mayhem.
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A picture in the fading golden frame stood on top of a black loudspeaker in one of the rooms at the H.B. Jassin Literary Documentation Center, Jakarta. Set against the wall, the frame was around two meters away from a photo of H.B. Jassin wearing batik. In the frame, placed on the cream-colored stone, was Chairul Anwars hand-written poem Persetujuan dengan Bung Karno (A Deal with Bung Karno).
There is also a small, tilted photo of Chairil smoking
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