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was marked by one inherent question which went to the core of his political protestations
with regard to the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless, good and evil, right
and wrong,
Yes! there are the triumphant, there are the humiliated
There are those with guns, there are those with wounds.
There are those who sit, there are those who are sat upon.
There are those with abundance, those with nothing left.
And on whose side do you stand? (Lane, 2009)
As an Indonesian and as a writer, Rendra fought for freedom of expression under both the
regimes of Sukarno and Suharto. His legacy is his words.
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