
For Sander Thoenes, Indonesia was a dream posting. After reporting from Moscow in the early 1990s, the young Dutch reporter joined this newspaper keen to be sent to the south-east Asian country that had long fascinated him. He eagerly lobbied the foreign editor, and learnt the Bahasa Indonesia language on his own initiative. Two years after he arrived in Jakarta, and 25 years ago this weekend, Thoenes was shot dead by Indonesian soldiers in a suburb of Dili, capital of East Timor. He was just 30.
對于桑德?托尼斯來說,印度尼西亞是他夢寐以求的工作地點。20世紀90年代初,這位年輕的荷蘭記者在莫斯科進行報道后加入了本報,他非常希望被派往這個讓他著迷已久的東南亞國家。他急切地游說外國編輯,并自學了印尼語。抵達雅加達兩年后,也就是25年前的這個周末,托尼斯在東帝汶首都帝力郊區被印尼士兵槍殺。當時他年僅30歲。