It was about two years ago. I attended an Open House event held by Anand Ashram Foundation. A friend invited me,” Why don’t you come tomorrow for the Pesta Rakyat NIM“(The People‘s Celebration of National Integration Movement). “Okay, but I don‘t sure I can get up that early”, I replied. The next morning, I woke up quite early in the morning and went to Monas.
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Sunday, the 1st June of 2008 is just a fine sunny day until about 13.30 pm. I was to be an eye-witness of a bloody event that now has opened many people eyes in Indonesia about how dangerous religious fanaticism is. At that time a horrid violence happened at the “heart” of Jakarta, The National Monument or as it is called “Monas”.
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