Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 16 Part 8 "Ik ben Indische ik ben Indonesiër"

"Ku lihat ibu pertiwi,
sedang bersusah hati
air matanya berlinang
mas intannya terkenang

Hutan, gunung, sawah, lautan simpanan kekayaan
kini ibu sedang lara
merintih dan berdoa

(I see my motherland
Her heart is aching
Her tears are flowing
Her gold and diamonds in our hearts

Forest, mountains, paddy fields, seas
Are her treasured riches
Now my motherland is saddened Grieving and praying)"
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"Ibu Pertiwi" by Iwan Fals

POV Mr. Erwin

I was sitting on my chair watching television as usual, watching the news about the terrorist's bomb explosion that took place tonight along with the chaos of the debate between the news announcer and experts as well as members of the police and religious leaders and as usual, the religious leaders being cornered again. The media, they have always been like that since the plane crashed into the WTC building on September 11, 2001 and the many terrorism attacks by fundamentalists.

However, this time the bomb that exploded was not the fault of the fundamentalists but a conspiracy created by the party. My daughter and her friends in the cyber division have got the rotten plans of the party that is now in power but I'm worried.

No, I'm not just worried about my daughter's fate. I worry about the fate of those who fought with me and my daughter. They have managed to trap Lodewijk and until now, I haven't heard from my daughter. I only received news about the development of conditions in the field based on reports from my subordinates, which for me their activities reporting their findings was just a formality even though some of us already know who is the mastermind behind all this.

I opened my smartphone and wrote a message to Mevrouw Sofia asking her hacker friend to release to the public all the party's wretched plans that my daughter had given to him in the form of a file stored on the hard disk that my daughter gave to him.

After sending the message via WhatsApp, I deleted the message using the delete for me feature so that those messages were deleted only on my phone while those messages still remained and was not deleted on Mevrouw Sofia's phone.

After I did that, suddenly from behind there was knocking sound on the door, I heard an explosion that made my ears buzz. The front door of my house was destroyed, several people wearing black uniforms complete with vests, helmets, masks and rifles with the same color entered my house.

They all shouted out loud asking me to raise my hands while pointing their rifle muzzles. I raised my hand, then noticed they were wearing an armband that had the unit's logo on it. Ah, Staat Straf Eenheid.

After I raised my hand, one of them took off her helmet and pulled her mask down to her chin with her index finger. The person smiled cynically at me, she had whitish blonde hair and a gaze as cold as polar ice. Looks like she is one of the Breivik sisters.

"Goedenavond , Meneer Erwin. (Good evening mr. Erwin.)" she said to me with a sly smile.

"Ja, goedenavond (yes, good evening). Let me guess, you're from Staat Straf Eenheid unit ?" I asked her.

"Well, well, well. You are truly an excellent officer to know from which unit I am without me having to explained it to you, you really deserve to be the chief of investigation division in the police force." she replied to me in cynical tone.