At the end of the last century, as Indonesia held its democratic presidential election following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, a colleague at Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post asked me plaintively: “Why can those Indonesians choose their ruler and we cannot?” It is a question that takes on a special resonance as the former colony bridles at the price of its history.
上世紀末，印尼蘇哈托(Suharto)獨裁政權倒臺，印尼舉行了民主的總統選舉。當時，香港《南華早報》(South China Morning Post)的一個同事問了我一個直白的問題：“為什么印尼人能選舉自己的統治者，我們不能？”在香港這個前殖民地對其歷史的代價不屑一顧之際，這個問題具有一種特殊的共鳴。
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