Ten years ago this month, Peter Lavina was attending the GRP-MNLF Peace Talks in Jakarta.  Damn! What experience!

August 1996 I was just settling in to my apartment in Crisanta Towers near Ultra having just moved to the Philippines on a full-time basis in July, chasing aid-funded, government energy projects.  Blech!

But I was in Jakarta too, for a while, earlier that year. My side trip was over the Puncak Pass to Bogor.