The Making of a False God (English)

Dear Reader,

You hold in your hands a book born from the darker corners of imagination. Within these pages lie stories that disturb, provoke, and expose - a chronicle of crime, satire, and the decay of belief. It is a mirror to one of the most corrupt eras ever conceived.

The Making of a False God unravels the rise and fall of a nation through the eyes of Maddie Weiger Prawiratmadja, a descendant of its once-noble lineage.
Disguised as a divine figure amid the filth of political deceit, Maddie learns to rule shadows rather than men. Guided by intellect yet consumed by ambition, he moves through the machinery of power like a ghost - unseen, calculating, untouchable.

Some would call him a visionary. Others, a tyrant.
But by the time you reach the final page, you will understand that divinity, once corrupted, is nothing more than another form of ruin.

With respect,
Zozo Sabiru Natalegawa
Batavia, 1990