In Search of a Hero's Grave
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Death, the grave and the meaning of identity had been percolating in B.W. Purba Negara's mind for a while. The concepts finally came together in the script of Ziarah, Tempo's choice for Best Screenplay of the year.
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IT all began with a dreadful and powerful experience of death. In 2004, when Aceh was devastated by a tsunami, B.W. Purba Negara, who was an environmental activist, became a logistics volunteer for the disaster relief effort. There were thousands of dead victims, and Purba helped recover hundreds of bodies.
"Maybe 200-300 bodies were taken by trucks to mass graves every day. None of them were identified," Purba told Tempo. It was at these mass grave
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