Leaving Salatiga, a town of 1,000 at the time, compared with around 200,000 today, perhaps the poet laid low in a hut at the foot of the Merbabu volcano, taking a stab at the pastoral life he ...

Today in Java's Salatiga city, where coffee trees and bougainvilleas bloom, only a plaque at the entrance of the mayor's residence recognises the fleeting passage of a man who inspired writers ...

Today in Java’s Salatiga city, where coffee trees and ... But the final weeks in Indonesia for the poet, who died in Marseille at 37, remain a mystery. After deserting his post, it is only ...

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