Arief Budiman, born Soe Hok Djin (Chinese: 史福仁; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sú Hok Jîn; 3 January 1940 – 23 April 2020)[2] was a Chinese Indonesian sociologist, cultural critic, and social activist.
He graduated from Kolese Kanisius, a Jesuit high school, and then Universitas Indonesia where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1968.
He was a lecturer at the Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga, Indonesia until 1996.
A sort of democratic space then emerges in which people can express their opinions freely.
However, when the state thinks the criticism has gone too far, it will simply take back the democracy that it has only lent.