Twenty Years After Shouts of ‘Reformasi!’

Three days after university students occupied the parliament building, some even standing on its roof, Suharto announced that he was stepping down as the President of Indonesia. Mohamad Syafi Ali, one leader of the student occupation of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in 1998, joked: Suharto resigned too quickly.

The number of students at the Parliament building in Senayan, Jakarta, had not yet reached its full total. Upon hearing th

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