Guess What? Tubagus Bachtiar Rifai<\/p>\n
A parent's love sometimes unintentionally brings trouble to
\ntheir children, but noted agriculture expert Tubagus Bachtiar
\nRifai never thought it would lead to the extreme: Crocodiles.<\/p>\n
\"Once a week I used to contact my son who was on duty on Buru
\nIsland from the radio at the Defense Ministry,\" said the former
\nhead of the Indonesian Science Institute.<\/p>\n
His son Firmansyah, a medical doctor, was posted on the island
\nfor political prisoners in his early professional years during
\nthe 1960s.<\/p>\n
\"When he told me and his mother that we could just call him
\nonce in two weeks we were so happy,\" he said, \"We thought he had
\nbegun to settle down.\"<\/p>\n
But they were quite wrong. \"He had very different reasons. It
\nturned out that every time we called him he had to cross a river
\nfull of crocodiles.\" This, said Rifai, was very difficult to
\nenvision for an elderly citizen in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"I could only imagine crocodiles in the zoo,\" said Rifai, 69,
\nenjoying a reunion last week with another former head of the
\ninstitute, Samaun Samadikun. (anr)<\/p>",
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