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The Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili was full of people on Nov. 1. In preparation for Nov. 2, the Day of the Spirits, they cleaned the tombstones and the graves, gave them a fresh coat of paint and bought candles for the following day.
As the small flower business in Timor Leste’s capital is still too costly for most people, residents resorted to asking for flowers from neighbors’ gardens or buying plastic bouquets. The flowers were brought to churches to be blessed, before they were laid at the grave of loved ones on Nov. 2. (By Ati Nurbaeti, Jakarta)
Your comments:
This article focuses on impunity (read: vengeance against Indonesian Armed Forces). The crux of
the problems is not impunity but reconciliation.
Indonesia should reconcile with its past, indeed. Those with vengeance have no place in Indonesia; left-leaning, left-related people, probably the writer of this piece, should reconcile with their past ghosts, forget about impunity and start thinking how Indonesians can best be united toward a much promising future.
Nani Basuki
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