![]() Soe's teen and college years was spent under the regime of Indonesia's founding father Sukarno, which was characterised with conflict between the military and the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). ![]() Soe's motto, as written on the movie poster, is translated as "It is better to be singled out than to surrender to hypocrisy". ![]() Even Soe's best friends, Tan Tjin Han and Herman Lantang posed the question "What is all this fighting for?" which Soe would calmly respond with his awareness that freedom has a price tag that must be paid. This passion was frequently misunderstood by others. Combined with a fighter's passion, faithfulness to friends, and a heart filled with genuine care for others and for his country, young Gie grew to become intolerant with injustice, and dreamt of an Indonesia that is truly founded on justice, equality, and righteousness. In his early teens, young Gie had developed a fascination in concepts and idealisms advocated by world class intellectuals. Soe Hok Gie grew up in a lower-middle class Chinese Indonesian family in Jakarta.
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