
In this article: Mochtar Lubis
Written by Tamalia Alisjahbana, and was originally published in Observer
Mar 24, 2022
Written by Tamalia Alisjahbana, and was originally published in Observer
Mar 24, 2022
Mochtar Lubis would have been 100 years old on Monday, the 7th of March 2022. He was a good friend and colleague of my father, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Mochtar had a house on Jalan Bonang near the Proclamation monument in Menteng and another house in the mountains, near our house there. I remember him as a tall man with a very boyish, good looking face that was to keep its boyish looks right till the end of his life. He was one of those people of whom Aristides Katoppo, another great Indonesian journalist and friend of Mochtar’s would say, “The child spirit in him is strong.”
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