Who is Dita Sari?
Dita Sari, born in 1974, became an active socialist in Indonesia as a law student at the age of 19. She abandoned her studies, and the comfortable career they promised, to devote herself to organising trade unions and her party, the People's Democratic Party. Indonesia was then under a military dictatorship, in power since a 1965 CIA-backed coup in which maybe half a million people we killed on suspicion of being "communists". Dita's activity was illegal, and she was jailed in July 1996 on charges of "disturbing public order and security". In jail, she nearly died of typhoid. The commitment...