'the acehs inside us'

At one extreme, the question popped by the perplexed pious might be: What did we do, dear God, to deserve this kind of punishment? At the other, it might be Voltarian: Could there be a God capable of doing that? Which side are we on? Did we manage pacifying answers to the quest? A number of western papers that came to me recently highlighted such "eternal" issues, if not satisfactorily, but this stimulating article, Aceh dalam Diri Kita, or The Acehs Inside Us, written in Indonesian by a fine Indonesian poet, while offering an original angle to view the Tragedies and many other disasters, provided readers with comments on the existential questions. His major concern, however, is on the civilization fallacy.