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Between 1983 and 1985, a series of extrajudicial executions of criminals took place throughout Indonesia in which bodies were found shot and left in public places. The killings, later admitted to be a government effort to control crime, terrified the unsuspecting public. Three of the stories in this collection are related to this confusing time.

The stories in Eyewitness both unsettle the mind and pull the heartstrings. With their strange, unnerving style, the stories also represent one brave author's refusal to forget. ""When journalism is gagged,"" the author once said, ""literature must speak.""