Size: 40cm x 50cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Artist: Taufik Hidayat

Another portrait of Indonesian people before the happening of Indonesia Reformation Era in 1998. When public aspiration being so much limited, and no one dare to show the power of democratic society will become a change in this country. Silence was appreciated otherwise, criticize was taboo and an ilegal threat to the government.

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