With a big smile she placed garlands of flowers around the necks of her three stern-faced judges. Still, she is not bitter. The judges are just doing their job. Harmless talk over beers escalated into their own political classes and, in 1992, the launch of a nationwide student movement. But the Marxists failed in Indonesia, in the Soviet Union, almost everywhere.
Democracy is the thing.
They learned quickly that a student organization would never bring down the state. The most effective is the labor wing. As of last week it had infiltrated 50 to 60 factories in industrial estates across Java and Sumatra islands. Students move into workers' quarters, hold political classes at night and wait for their senior leaders' orders to launch strikes. So far they have called 24 walkouts and helped organize more than 100 others.