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Indonesians in Focus: Wiwik Lo
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The end of Ramadhan in mid-October is a time of reconciliation and the seeking of forgiveness. It is also an occasion for family gift giving. That is not easy if you are among Indonesia’s 2.5 million overseas workers who want to send home presents or cash. Bank transfers are probably the safest, though heavy commissions are often charged for exchanging the local currency into rupiah, and then shifting it from bank to bank. And for many Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) banks are strange and forbidding institutions.
Indonesians in Focus: Teuku Jacob
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Indonesian paleontologist Teuku Jacob, who died Wednesday from a liver disease, was known for his firm scientific judgments, including his opinion on the “Hobbit” fossils found on an island in East Nusa Tenggara province. A public funeral ceremony was held at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta on Thursday before Jacob’s body was moved to its final resting place in the university’s cemetery. Hundreds of academics, administrative staff, students, former rectors, and colleagues, friends and relatives of Jacob attended the ceremony that ended with a military salute for the recipient of the 2002 Bintang Mahaputra Nararia State Award.
Indonesians in Focus: Muhammad Nehru Sagena
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Who determines whether a family is living below the poverty line? If you ask residents of Binuang district in Polewali, West Sulawesi, they will probably reply “the people themselves”. Or, at least that was what Binuang district head Muhammad Nehru Sagena, 37, learned when distributing rice and cash assistance in 2005. At that time, Binuang’s poorest families were often heard to complain they were not receiving any public aid. Nehru found out that some better-off households had been put on the list of recipients of the government’s rice and cash assistance for the poor.
Indonesians in Focus: Barreto Soares
By Barrie | No Comments » We all scattered / we all ran in every direction. These two lines are scrawled in the notebook of the man with the guitar, one of two books in his bag that is filled with phrases, mostly in Tetum, but also in Indonesian.
Indonesians in Focus: Sofia Mansoor
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Money talks, or does it? Yes. But for this cheerful woman, money is apparently not what she likes best when it comes to her job as a translator. Appreciation from readers is what makes Sofia Mansoor most happy. When readers find her translation reads well and acknowledge her hard work, this makes her “feel like she is on top of the world”.
Indonesians in Focus: Kusnodin
By Barrie | No Comments » Some people are suspicious of free enterprise and even afraid to compete with people from other countries, but not Kusnodin, a villager who lives west of Borobudur temple in Central Java. He says he is growing impatient waiting for free trade to come because he is sure that he can easily play a role in the global market.
Indonesians in Focus: Ong Hok Liong
By Barrie | No Comments » In the history of Malang written by Dukut Imam Widodo and titled
Malang Tempo Doeloe (Malang in the Past), Ong Hok Liong, the founder of the cigarette company Bentoel, is pictured as a hardworking figure, a tough man and a spiritualist who liked gambling but who was also generous. During the war against the Dutch he helped many independence fighters, giving them money, materials, food and cigarettes.
Indonesians in Focus: Naning Adiwoso
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Naning Adiwoso has devoted significant time to campaigning for clean public toilets in Indonesia, taking snapshots of toilets wherever she goes. Her collection of thousands of pictures includes about 1,000 photos of Indonesian toilets.
Indonesians in Focus: Alkhairaat
By Barrie | No Comments » In eastern Indonesia, Alkhairaat is a household name. The Islamic educational foundation operates schools from Palu in Central Sulawesi to Papua. It also plays a significant role in fostering peace in the conflict-torn regions.
Indonesians in Focus: Hari Purnomo
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One of the most actively discussed topics at the moment is the character or “personality” of Indonesian fine arts. It is easy to be dismissive and say, “What personality”? And this unalloyed pessimism about the arts scene has been around now for quite some time.
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