For the Love of a Nephew
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
IT was New Year 1908. Mohammad Hatta returned from school with a toy ship made of recycled tina New Year's present from Santa Claus at school. After lunch at home, he and a close friend, Rasjid Manggis, went to a small creek to sail the ship on the water as they waited for their Qur'anic lessons to begin in the evening at a small mosque run by a guru named Injiek Djambek. In other days when not in school Hatta spent most of his time pl
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