In Indonesia, a Voice That Will Not Be Silenced From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 6, 1999| Author: Mishi Saran | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

International Herald Tribune

04-06-1999

On a warm evening, Indonesia's most famous writer lights another clove cigarette in his east Jakarta home, the sweet-smelling kretek an essential prop to discussing his memoir, which will be published in the United States this month.

''I smoke two packets of kreteks a day; it's best for my lungs,'' says the 74-year-old Pramoedya Ananta Toer. ''If I smoke, I'm still living.''

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