They Never Thought It Was That Much
Faisal and Setiawan, still school boys, were arrested for just stealing chocolate, deodorant at the time of social unrest. Better take it home than burned or destroyed. It would be too bad if you’re not allowed to take home you on purpose would destroy the goods and burn the store as many did. Perhaps so they thought,
Why take them to court while it could be easily pacified among those concerned?
I remember the house which was build of bread, chocolate, sweets in a fairy tale. There is no child who would ever wish to destroy, burn it. It’s better to eat them. Suppose the store, supermarket which they destroyed, burned, was not build of cakes, sweets, … but had gold coins pasted on the floors, the doors consisted of Rp. 100 thousand banknotes, their walls of Rp. 50 thousand banknotes and banknotes to the value of all the commodities in the store. If all the money would amount to the same value of that supermarket including all the goods, I think they would never ruin it, were it (in) money. They never realized it was that much.
For weeks the boys were detained in jail.
“Well, the verdict was two month in prison because of stealing such a trifle worth only Rp. 7.900.-“ Upik said, “calculated, how many hundreds, even thousand years in jail should be the sentence of those who stole, destroyed, burned to a value of billion rupiahs, harmed, even caused death and laborers without work. Many thousands of them were not arrested.”
Meanwhile owners silently wept, wept for their loss of goods, motors, cars, shops, homes, … that had been destroyed or burned, - the fruits of working, building for years with sweat and tears - for their family members that had died without any wrong-doing. As in a war, whom should they ask for justice?
From Suara Karya, February 1, 1997
Faisal and Setiawan, still school boys, were arrested for just stealing chocolate, deodorant at the time of social unrest. Better take it home than burned or destroyed. It would be too bad if you’re not allowed to take home you on purpose would destroy the goods and burn the store as many did. Perhaps so they thought,
Why take them to court while it could be easily pacified among those concerned?
I remember the house which was build of bread, chocolate, sweets in a fairy tale. There is no child who would ever wish to destroy, burn it. It’s better to eat them. Suppose the store, supermarket which they destroyed, burned, was not build of cakes, sweets, … but had gold coins pasted on the floors, the doors consisted of Rp. 100 thousand banknotes, their walls of Rp. 50 thousand banknotes and banknotes to the value of all the commodities in the store. If all the money would amount to the same value of that supermarket including all the goods, I think they would never ruin it, were it (in) money. They never realized it was that much.
For weeks the boys were detained in jail.
“Well, the verdict was two month in prison because of stealing such a trifle worth only Rp. 7.900.-“ Upik said, “calculated, how many hundreds, even thousand years in jail should be the sentence of those who stole, destroyed, burned to a value of billion rupiahs, harmed, even caused death and laborers without work. Many thousands of them were not arrested.”
Meanwhile owners silently wept, wept for their loss of goods, motors, cars, shops, homes, … that had been destroyed or burned, - the fruits of working, building for years with sweat and tears - for their family members that had died without any wrong-doing. As in a war, whom should they ask for justice?
From Suara Karya, February 1, 1997
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