H'Ongtang "Scratches of Wounds"

The tragedy of 1965

I held Fei who was unable to walk, his face smiled again even though his leg wound was still sore, The little Fei that I consider my own sister would rather play with me than her two brothers and I love Fei the same as my love for my younger sister Rina.

Evening at night, Bukittinggi was a separation between me and Jiang and his family, I really could not see Jiang anymore forever, it's like a nightmare I never wanted and yesterday was the real last day I was with him   

Dew in minang land

The dew that came down at six in the morning was so thick that it blocked the view, its cold air froze me to a single memory of the past with a memory that I could not possibly forget, I was only able to get out of the daydream after the gonjanga of the tree beside me that held the dew water in its shins

 " Akbar " 

" hahaha, why man, are you daydreaming what "

" not daydreaming of anyone"

" oh Rama huh?. Why do you miss him " 

"How many times have I told you Rama was my childhood friend and I have called my own brother " 

" oh really, but what if she likes you "

" it can't be Akbar, you can't fret, ah you'd better go with me now"

" where?"

" just come along" 

The same sound of nature with the same scenery as when I last visited this place, the sound of them both faintly perched on the metamorgana in the mind like dejavu ,jiang's laughter and Fei's carefree face made me smile again as well as shed tears, I covered the drop of tears with the cold water of the Cyanok Gorge river which is the eternal freshness of the Creator 

" Indonesiaku merdeka , a land that is very beautiful with nature that amazes me see my indonesia"

the sound of Akbar's cry caused a stir for those who were enjoying the natural scenery, his behavior was a little embarrassing and I splashed water on his shirt so he stopped all the silliness.

" Akbar come down, you disturb them "

" i'm not bothering my friend I'm just letting out my heart "

" but don't shout like that, your voice alone is enough to make the birds leave this area"

" aha" 

... Dreams that always come...

 The dream came again as real and I can not forget his smile and laughter always in my dream scenario, fei stood back firmly with his cherry face in front of the remaining debris of the fire, I called her name so deeply moved and she waved her little hand at me feeling very very very real, unfortunately it was just a sleeping flower that appeared at my usual rest 

" y young master, wake up "

Akbar woke me up which made me realize Fei was just a mirage I was hoping to be real 

" ah you're interrupting my rest "

" why young master, you were daydreaming and now you're asleep "

" no, there's just something I'm looking for"

" the truth of what"

" hahh, you're still a 1965 newspaper hoarder about the fire in the Chinese village  "

" or your grandfather, come on, please find it for me"

" well, I'll ask you later, but explain first for what"

" i'll explain now to your grandfather's house first"

Newspaper whose writing had been eaten by termites I met in the backyard of Akbar's grandfather's house ,

" i've found it, I brought the newspaper first grandpa"

"yes, just take the ronsokan "

For this person is a ronsokan but for me this is a valuable because there is one thing in it that I want to know from the past,the news of 1965 was the moment my friend Jiang left for good and the newspaper published by the field that I held with trembling hands and I read even though the writing faded a little but I could understand the contents, tiongha vocational couple died with their two children, said the two children made me think hard ,didn't Koko lung have three children and who survived I can't figure out the contents of the news because some of the paper was damaged by eating termites, my headache was thinking too much about the puzzle, behind my narrow thinking comes the name da Malik in my mind, he is the only key witness there because he is a member of Koko Lung who also lives there.

I am still confused to find traces of da malik in this land because all since the incident he disappeared like swallowed by the earth, I saw old grandfather cutting dry leaves whose house is not far from the former shophouse Lung 

" Assalam mukaikum cake "seventy-year-old grandfather remained silent as I said his greetings "excuse me cake I want to ask, cake , grandfather"

"look who's son" Grandma who is grandfather's wife came out of the house because she heard my voice 

" oh sorry Grandma I wanted to ask you about da malik, do you know him"

" Malik who's the kid"

"malik who works with Koko Lung, that's a book store that burned down in 1965 first"

" oh yes malik, he had worked here after the fire for two months and after that he left he said he would work in batam " 

Batam is not a distant place just my time that I cannot fully have to find da Malik but it is impossible for me to stop the struggle at the beginning is very cowardly in my opinion, three days I took permission to meet da malik in batam berutunglah island is not too big so it did not take long to meet da malik there ,the young man who once had a little gray hair in his hair stood looking at the harbor , 

" dw, do you remember me " 

" who"

" i'm Radit, Jiang's friend " 

" Radit you are that"

 Da Malik's eyes glazed as he looked at me in front of him and he hugged me so tightly as if I was the one he missed so much "you're so big now, why did Dit you look for me up here "

" i think uda knows what I mean and what I came here for "

" yes he was indeed still alive, in that day I slammed Fei but was unable to save the others and it was my deepest regret "

" then where is fei now "

" that night Koko told me to pick up his brother at the port of batam and then the ormas came and destroyed everything, I brought Fei to hide because I was so afraid, two days later I went to Batam with fei and I told everything to master chen his sister koko, they got angry and took Fei away with them and to this day I still wait for him back at the port to make sure he is okay"

" where did Fei they take him"

" china"

Fei was outside my country and outside of my power how could I find him while the time for me alone could not have, she said, I can rely on the information from da Malik and hope Fei returns to Indonesia .