To Forgive But Not Forget

I came across this article in today's The Jakarta Post titled "To Forgive But Not Forget", turns out it is an anthology of short films to commemorate 10 years of reform movement in Indonesia. May 1998 - May 2008, thus giving birth to the name of this project, 9808. Quite a bit of the article in the JP was dedicated to talking about how the mayhem swept across the country and led to the prosecution and rape of the ethnic Chinese here.

It's been 10 years since then, and perhaps it is important to remember that while the ethnic Chinese were the biggest sufferers of that period of turmoil, there were many others who also lost their lives during the reform movement, and the scars are still carried on into today by their family members.

Sure, one can find it in their hearts to forgive, but one can never forget, that much is true.