Apan’s cry that morning created a commotion in the village. Several foragers who were going to work gathered instead at Leonardus’ house. Apan said, we all are in the newspaper. Of course, we had not seen the newspaper. I, myself, had only received an SMS from a colleague in the o ce in Pontianak. Right away I grabbed my laptop and ran to nd reception outside the house by the soursop tree, hoping to get access to both of the large media’s sites.
A rubber planting ceremony for KTM PPB guests has now become a sort of new ritual in Loncek. Whoever comes will be “sentenced” with indigenous law to plant rubber seedlings, not least the Head of Loncek Hamlet and the Head of Teluk Bakung Village.
“Even if the president himself came, we would also sentence him with indigenous law to plant rubber!” such was the pledge from Pucuk and Riko to me once, after it rained exactly on Sumpah Pemuda day.