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Living in Denmark this Indonesian ex journalist, now engineer, wondered why on earth a number of her female compatriots in Copenhagen seemed to be so subservient to their western partners: “I discovered that most of them (at least five out of six) gave me the same answer when I called / sent them sms / email [...] Wilma van der Maten is an anthropologist and journalist. Well, actually a professional journalist. She was “our women in Jakarta” from 1999 up to 2007 for Dutch public radio and TV. Usually she provided for reports which took 60 seconds or three minutes max, and were about bomb blasts, tsunami’s and human interest.
It’s not unusual a nation pays honour to great sons and daughters. So I can’t quite explain why these footprints in cement in Jakarta astonished me at the time. There they were: the small toes of Megawati. And the feet of other presidents, starting with those of the real hero, the father, the founder of [...] |
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