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Dadang Chistanto was born in Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia, in 1957. Of Chinese heritage, he converted from Christianity to Islam as an adult.

In the late 1970s Dadang studied at the Indonesian Art College in Yogyakarta and later joined the Bengkel Teater group led by the celebrated writer and poet WS Rendra.

Here he started to explore social and political concerns through literature, music and performance.

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In 1987 Dadang joined the Indonesian New Art Movement, and by the 1990s Yogyakartan artists such as Dadang were gaining a reputation internationally as well as within Indonesia.

They give evidence reflects a traumatic incident from Dadang’s childhood. In 1965 at the age of eight a number of soldiers came to his house and, while he and his family were asleep, took his father away.

Dadang has not seen his father since then, and still does not know why he was taken away.(1) It is still something Dadang finds difficult to discuss with his mother.

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