He lost the right to vote, hold a government job, or a passport. Every month, he has to report to the local police in the Jakarta suburb where he lives. But even these restrictions couldn't keep subversive information off of Oey Hai Djun's radar screen. Indeed, thanks to a computer given to him by a younger relative some years ago, Oey Hai Djun has tapped directly into the lifeblood of the dissident movement, free speech. Online, he read daily posts to bulletin boards from Indonesian exiles in Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States.
People are free to think what they want and say what they want.
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