Sri Sunardi was the architect of the scouting grounds in Cibubur and was the holder of the highest honour of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM). He was married to a leftist lecturer of the Pedagogy Department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta.
When in mid-1966 I came home from Nusakambangan, dishevelled and covered in scabies like a homeless person, Mrs Sunardi made me a pair of shorts from a shirt that belonged to our fellow female political prisoner in Bastion, Fort Willem Een in Ambarawa. Mrs Sunardi was released before I was from Bastion. When she was released, she gave me a handkerchief. She told me her husband had given it to her as he was taken away from Fort Vredeburg forever. She told me to keep the handkerchief, because she could not do so herself. “Take care of it, Dja!” she said as she embraced me, crying. I took the handkerchief with me wherever I went, to Buru and when I came home in 1979. I have looked after that historical square piece of cloth, until today. Tedjabayu Sudjojono #1965setiaphari #living1965
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