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Sugeng’s Last Days

25 Agustus 2008 - 18:36 WIB

Yovinus Guntur Wicaksono

In the middle of Class I of the Surabaya Prison yard in Porong, Sidoarjo there is a beautiful garden where many kinds of flowers and trees grow.  One of the prisoners is diligently watering the flowers and trees one by one.  While smoking a clove cigarette this gray-haired man

The Execution of Romance in Surabaya

25 Agustus 2008 - 18:34 WIB

Yovinus Guntur Wicaksono

Saturday, 19 June 2008.  The final day of the campaign in the East Java governor election was a hazy day for Felicia.  The woman with fair complexion had to lose Sugeng, the man of her dreams.

 

She felt even worse after Sugeng died, shot by the

My Wish to be a Migrant Worker has Drowned

25 April 2008 - 13:12 WIB

Andi Haryanto

I have been working in Malaysia for about a year when I was caught in an operation conducted by the Malaysian securities forces. I was working together with my sister at the time.  I was caught because I did not have a passport and working permit. So I was sent

The Cruelty of the Suharto Regime (3): Stepped On, My Private Parts Bleeding

2 April 2008 - 15:14 WIB

Margiyono

At the time, I was a journalist for Daily Economic Nusa Bakti. I was also member of the United Journalists of Indonesia (PWI) and active in the Nationalist Party of Indonesia (PNI) lead by Alo-Surachman. People used to say PNI-Asu, short for Ali-Surachman.

 

I was arrested in the

The Cruelty of the Suharto Regime (2): Electrocuted Until Fainting

25 Maret 2008 - 12:7 WIB

Margiyono

In the year 1965 I was only 36 years old. I worked as a government official at the Traffic Government Service in Lampung (Sumatra). I was active organizing the Labor Union for the Traffic Service workers. In 1966 I went to Jakarta on a work assignment. I went straight