Ia menyebutnya sebagai perjamuan terakhir.

Malam itu 21 Oktober 1966, Martin Aleida tiba di suatu rumah di Jakarta Pusat dengan 50 tusuk sate untuk dinikmati bersama lima kawan. Selama seminggu lewat, ia membobok tembok dan memasang pipa instalasi listrik sebuah rumah. Sebagian upahnya untuk membeli sate itu di Pasar Baru.

Pada perjamuan terakhir di Mangga Besar ini, tak ada setetes pun anggur merah dan roti, walau hanya remahnya. Yang ada cuma Putu Oka dan orang-orang yang dia berikan perlindungan serta 50 sate yang tinggal bambu penusuknya.

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Warief Djajanto Basorie

Reported for the domestic KN I News Service in Jakarta 1971-1991 and concurrently was Indonesia correspondent for the Manila- based DEPTHnews Asia (DNA, 1974-1991). DNA is a feature service reporting on development in Asia for Asian media in English and the vernacular. English-language subscribers included the Bangkok Post, Hong Kong Standard, Asian Wall Street Journal, Indonesia Times, Philippine Daily Inquirer.

In 1991 joined the Dr. Soetomo Press Institute (LPDS, Lembaga Pers Dr. Soetomo), a journalism school in Jakarta as an instructor and convenor in thematic journalism workshops. Most recently was project manager for three cycles of workshops on covering climate change since 2012. More than 600 journalists in provinces in Sumatra, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Sulawesi and Papua prone to forest and peat fires have participated. The latest cycle ended December 2017.