In this article My Neighbour, The Dictator Tari Lang
By Sawarin Suwichakornpong, originally published in Bangkok Post
Oct 03, 2026
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By Sawarin Suwichakornpong, originally published in Bangkok Post
Oct 03, 2026
A memoir reveals the resilience and personal toll of surviving political persecution during Indonesia's Cold War purges.
The Cold War period was one of the strangest times in human history.
It stretched from late 1946 to 1991; quite a breadth of human memories in which people fought, not on their own battlegrounds, but on geopolitical planning, ideological opposition, espionage, space races and nuclear competition that was mostly plotted on the soil of the allies of the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
Among these crazed, sometimes very brutal endeavours of Cold War planning, the lands of the proxies of the Western Bloc and those of the Eastern Bloc became the epicentre where Communist ideology and Liberalism, a political vocation of the so-called Free World, were tested, clashed and exploded.
The Cold War period was one of the strangest times in human history.
It stretched from late 1946 to 1991; quite a breadth of human memories in which people fought, not on their own battlegrounds, but on geopolitical planning, ideological opposition, espionage, space races and nuclear competition that was mostly plotted on the soil of the allies of the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
Among these crazed, sometimes very brutal endeavours of Cold War planning, the lands of the proxies of the Western Bloc and those of the Eastern Bloc became the epicentre where Communist ideology and Liberalism, a political vocation of the so-called Free World, were tested, clashed and exploded.
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