Tari Lang - My Neighbour, the Dictator: Coming of age in the shadow of Indonesia's 1965 military coup...with TRE's Giles Brown
Indonesia, 1965. As General Suharto seizes power and the streets of Jakarta run with fear, 14-year-old Tari Budiardjo's life is torn apart. Her Javanese father and British-born mother - intellectuals and civil servants-turned-radicals in Sukarno's government - are imprisoned without trial, leaving her to navigate adolescence in a city of soldiers, informers and whispered betrayals.
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