Throughout the monologue, Pak Bambang offered words of consolation, acknowledged how confronting these experiences were for a young man from the village, a very small village, and the courage it took to seize the opportunities offered, as he had done. At times, he also inserted words of compassion and concern for those who were homeless or driven to drugs or p**********n, and explained the multiple disadvantages of life for some people in big cities, even in a rich country like this. He described the ills caused by alcohol and explained that alcoholism was an illness. He talked about mental illness and how the society had still not found a way to properly look after people who suffered from it, not in Australia and not in Indonesia either.
Pak Bambang asked about Marj – what sort of perso
