At the end of the last century, as Indonesia held its democratic presidential election following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, a colleague at Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post asked me plaintively: “Why can those Indonesians choose their ruler and we cannot?” It is a question that takes on a special resonance as the former colony bridles at the price of its history.
上世纪末，印尼苏哈托(Suharto)独裁政权倒台，印尼举行了民主的总统选举。当时，香港《南华早报》(South China Morning Post)的一个同事问了我一个直白的问题：“为什么印尼人能选举自己的统治者，我们不能？”在香港这个前殖民地对其历史的代价不屑一顾之际，这个问题具有一种特殊的共鸣。
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