Jokowi or Prabowo

Yeah, yeah, I know. You've had enough about Mr. P vs. Mr. J for the presidential election on July 9th.

One of the black campaign was from a journalist, Allan Nairn. He was a foreigner, a foreigner that I believe he witnessed and survived the massacre at the Santa Cruz cemetery, Dilli, in 1991.

Then I went to his blog and his writings kicked me in my head, this foreigner knew too much about Indonesia while I, I never gave a thrice thought about lies in the history book I learnt back in my distant memory.

I had my second thought, a couple years ago. But relying only from Indonesian books put me on a dead end. The only thing I knew about September 30th, 1965, it was about internal conflict in Indonesian military. And a rumor about US was with Soeharto on that.

I was so confused about the election, which will be held 5 days again. And it is Allan Nairn, though I disagree about him "sharing" 'the truth' (I was thankful for his decision), who made me want to learn about history of my country since its declaration.

I hope I can decide my vote in time, I hope it's the right decision.