A Looming PDI-P Split and other Ghost Stories
Reformasi Dispatch
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Indonesian Ghosts - Are They Good Ghosts?
The Contillana, the ghost of a vengeful woman who was killed or raped during her lifetime. She now has been used by some feminist writers to kind of reclaim her as a way to talk about the difficulties of living as women in Indonesia. And I think she is useful for people to talk about here violence against women and your countries and your societies. The Pochon are ghosts who cannot rest well because they were not good Muslims in the past. A study by Nils Buband,. an anthropologist who studied Lucy, Lünpursidwadjo, the mudflow in East Java found that people talking about the dragon that lives inside earth's just a euphemism
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