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THE ORIGIN OF RIGHT

By Ratih Sudarso · 4 parts · 17 h 24 min · English

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Jakarta, September 1985. A body comes up at a floodgate with no wound on it, and Captain Sudibyo opens a homicide file because nobody else will. In the dead man's shirt pocket is a photocopy of a village land deed executed by thumbprint in December 1965. The city is repainting itself for a state visit in ten days, the file is taken off him by a polite memorandum, and he continues under an inquiry into the disposal of an unclaimed motorcycle. What he assembles is a register, a manifest, a tax counterfoil and a page of purple roneo, and the question the novel puts is whether a man can go on being a good policeman once he understands what the paperwork is a record of.

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  1. Part 01

    3:47:12

  2. Part 02

    4:14:48

  3. Part 03

    4:33:03

  4. Part 04

    4:48:31

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