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Last September I visited my family in Indonesia. There, I asked my grandmother whether there were photos of my grandfather, who died ten years before I was born. After the coup d'etat in the mid-sixties, he was detained as a political prisoner for fifteen years. He was released in 1980 but died shortly after as a result of health complications from his captivity. The pictures she showed were the first images I had seen of my grandfather, and I'm pretty sure they are the only ones that exist. There are more pictures in the album but these are the strongest, especially next to each other.  A family picture before he was detained. That's my mother on my grandmother's lap.  This is a portrait of my mother, I'm guessing roughly five years old. I'm not completely sure but I think this was taken shortly after my grandfather was detained. My grandmother told me stories of how my mother would ask her 'Kapan bapak pulang?' or 'When is dad coming home?' I'm currently planning on going back to Indonesia this year, to start a project on Indonesia. I'm going to then properly digitalize the pictures in the album and use them as an underlying base for it.
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