It’s scary to think that one of the places you think you might return to someday – the one that resides strongly in your memories – is now gone.
A neighbouring family once lived, like us, in Tangkahan Lagan/Pangkalan Brandan in North Sumatra. When we were there, the area was a thriving one, supported by the oil industry. But my neighbours, who just visited TL/PB again, said that there was nothing there now anymore. Pertamina has packed up their things and left. The housing complexes are now guarded by marines, and my neighbours had to ask for permission to enter the area. ”My children were born here!”
So they let them in, only to find a saddening, devastated, lonely place. Where there used to be thousand of people living now are ruins of buildings that 15 years ago were still in a very good condition — many of them were new when we were there. It’s practically a dead town.
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