New Internationalist  Whatever Happened To Mogi Darusman?  Issue
116   INDONESIA [image, unknown] Singing pimpernel  [image,
unknown]  Whatever happened to Mogi Darusman? They see him here.
They see him there. Mogi Darusman sings his protest songs
everywhere. Doug Miles reports.  MOGI DARUSMAN’s last public
appearance was on an open- air stage in Jakarta a few months
before the May elections. A Surabayan pop group, Lemon Trees,
was giving a concert and the lead singer, Gombloh, had stopped
to read a note. Then he announced: ‘Our friend Mogi is out there
somewhere. Come on up, Mogi.’  Thunderous applause greeted the
invitation and continued long after his companions had carried
Mogi through the audience and thrown him bodily over the
footlights.  ‘But I can’t sing,’ protested Mogi in mock
humility. ‘Why?’ roared the crowd. ‘Well... rm not wearing
shoes. Can’t afford to replace the last pair the police took
from me. His banter with the audience continued in the roughest
of colloquial Sundanese till at last he a