Six years ago today, 4 students were shot at Trisakti University "at the hands of security personnel". Their deaths triggered the downfall of Soeharto and the
reformasi movement. Has life got better?
Few think so, not with the then army chief
Wiranto now a leading candidate for the Presidency.
Living through the excitement of a televised revolution, picking up on rumours and yet not hearing of the horrors being inflicted on the Chinese community led me to get online. And here I still am. Has life got better? I don't think so.
But there is hope; hope that the horrors of that week will never be forgotten. Or repeated. Hope that a civil society will emerge that really is civil and not riven by the division of spoils.
I remain an unashamed idealist.
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