By Engelbertus Wendratama Several Savin Hill residents dismissed a brazen daylight stabbing near the Savin Hill T station Monday, saying the attack was not a random crime and would not affect the neighborhood’s reputation. “It was a tragedy, but I think it doesn’t represent a safety issue in the neighborhood,” said Andrea Rossi, who saw […]
By Engelbertus Wendratama One person who is eagerly anticipating the medical marijuana business in Boston is Jon Napoli. As the owner of Boston Gardener, a store supplying urban gardening needs, Napoli has been teaching classes on how to grow marijuana since January. He hopes when the medical marijuana law is implemented in May, marijuana patients […]
By Engelbertus Wendratama In a “listening session” on medical marijuana held Feb. 16 at the Roxbury Community Center, David Kelly, a disabled patient and disability activist, asked Massachusetts health officials to leave the marijuana prescription up to the physicians. “There are different strains of marijuana, each for a particular condition of the patient. Only the […]
By Engelbertus Wendratama Sen. Stanley Rosenberg is likely the most quoted state legislator on the medical marijuana issue. As one of the proponents of the Massachusetts medical marijuana initiative, the democratic senator said he believed that the new medical marijuana law is too loose in two aspects, and he’s trying to fix them. First is […]
WorldBoston’s Discussion on Indonesia Thank you so much to Bill Clifford and WorldBoston for having us in the WB’s discussion. It was a great evening!
WorldBoston’s Discussion on Indonesia Thank you so much to Bill Clifford and WorldBoston for having us in the WB’s discussion. It was a great evening!
This is the chapter one of The Murder of Munir: A Perfect Crime?, a narrative journalism on the murder of Munir Said Thalib, an Indonesian activist who was poisoned during a Jakarta-Amsterdam flight in 2004. This book was published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in Indonesian in 2009. Most parts of the book were based on my observations, […]
Ini adalah bab satu dari buku saya Kasus Pembunuhan Pembunuhan Munir: Kejahatan yang Sempurna? Bentuknya jurnalisme naratif, diterbitkan oleh Gramedia Pustaka Utama pada 2009. Sebagian besar materi buku ini berasal dari catatan resmi (catatan pengadilan, BAP Kepolisian, investigasi Garuda Indonesia), pengamatan penulis, dan wawancara dengan orang yang terlibat langsung. Setahu saya, ini adalah pembunuhan paling canggih […]
(Ini adalah bagian dari kumpulan artikel yang sudah diterbitkan: arsip yang saya cari lalu unggah di sini sebagai dokumentasi. Tulisan ini dimuat di Polysemia edisi Januari 2011. Kala itu, menjelang akhir 2010, WikiLeaks menjadi fenomena global yang mengundang pro-kontra. Kontra tentu saja datang dari pemerintah, utamanya pemerintah AS. Pihak yang paling terbuka mendukung mereka adalah […]
Engelbertus Wendratama 