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Little Budi took a deep breath, puffed out his chest, and attempted a dramatic backflip off a low-hanging mango tree branch. He didn't land it. Instead, he landed flat on his backside in a patch of mud, his lightsaber flying into the bushes.

In the video, Budi was standing in his childhood backyard, holding a plastic lightsaber as if it were a sacred relic. His best friend, Gilang, was filming, his high-pitched laugh echoing behind the camera. "Okay, Budi! Do the move!" Gilang shouted. MASIH_B_CIL_SD.mp4

"I’m still an SD kid!" the boy yelled, using the slang for elementary schoolers. "I don't have to be good at it yet!" Little Budi took a deep breath, puffed out

He double-clicked. The screen filled with the grainy, shaky footage of a 2010 afternoon. There he was—ten years old, wearing a red-and-white school uniform that was two sizes too big, his hair a messy bowl cut that his mother had insisted was "stylish." In the video, Budi was standing in his