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A Forgotten Pieces of Indonesia May 1998 Tragedy

In the late 90s, my father often used his office VHS handy-cam to record our family events. Birthdays, daily lives, or even a funeral. Resulted in 8 VHS tapes, that we watch together during the Chinese new year.

Time goes by, my father’s office didn’t use the handy-cam anymore, and we didn’t have a VHS player at home. So the tapes were just kept in a box until I found them again in 2018.

Curious about what’s inside the tapes, I went to convert the VHS tapes into digital format. When I got the footage, I was shocked. Out of 8 tapes, 1 of them is a 31 minutes recording of a TV playing local and international news about Indonesia’s May 1998 tragedy, recorded on 14-15 May 1998.

On May 2021, I watched and edited the video. The clips are only edited for upsizing to 1320x1080 px.

23 years later, after never ever got seen by anyone beside my family, I am minting these curated forgotten pieces of Indonesian history.

Unique items
30
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Total items
0
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Created
Aug 2021
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Creator earnings
9.8%
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Chain
Ethereum
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