Curing Indonesia’s collective amnesia
That exact hour when angry students took over the parliamentary building in Senayan, Jakarta, I was over 10.000 kilometers away. In 1998, the six-year-old me moved to Göttingen, Germany, to accompany my mom who won a scholarship to do her master’s there. I vaguely remember seeing clips on the television or in the newspaper my dad brought home that week, but at that age I could barely make sense of what happened. What New Order? An analysis by Andhyta F. Utami, co-initiator of BijakMemilih.id and founder of Think Policy Society.
