The Sea Speaks His Name

In the twilight hours of a day in March, Biru Laut was ambushed by four unknownmen. Together with his friends, Daniel, Sunu and Alex, he was taken to an unknownlocation. For months they were held captive, interrogated, beaten and tortured intoanswering one sole question: who stood behind the rebellious student movementsat that time?Biru Laut’s younger sister, who, along with other family members of kidnappedstudent activists, struggled to put the pieces of the puzzle together and to findanswers to their never-ending questions.While her parents appear to be in denial and remain hopeful that Biru Laut willone day come back to sit at the family table again, Asmara Jati engages alongsidethe Missing Persons Commission Team led by Aswin Pradana in order to strive tofind traces of those who went missing and to record the testimonies of those whoreturned.Biru Laut’s stirring story and that of his friends, is the story of the desaparecidos ofIndonesia. It is the story of a momentous – and still seldom written about – periodof Indonesian history which led to the end of dictatorship in Indonesia.