Former student activist Ari Perdana, 43, remembers watching then Indonesian President Suharto's resignation speech on TV in May 1998. He was relieved that what demonstrators sought had finally happened - after months of protests on campuses that culminated in university students occupying Parliament's grounds and its iconic roof.
"That was not an ending we had anticipated and events occurred faster than expected," Mr Ari, who now works for an international organisation, told The Sunday Times.
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