Wimar Witoelar was best known as a popular critic of Indonesia’s New Order government. But somehow he avoided being hounded. Later, as the spokesperson for former President Abdurrahman Wahid, he was also close to the President Wahid’s biographer, Professor Greg Barton, from Deakin University. Barton explains his admiration for Wimar and why he was a person of extraordinarily broad appeal.
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Wimar Witoelar was an in-demand public intellectual in Indonesia and abroad. Where do his ideals and ideas fit in contemporary Indonesia? Source: Image by CIFOR/Creative Commons.
