Julia Suryakusuma
*) The writer is the author of Julia’s Jihad.
She can be contacted at www.juliasuryakusuma.com

WE are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.”

This is probably not what the people of West Sumatra were thinking when an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck on September 30, delivering death and destruction, but it is, in fact, what happened. Hundreds were dead on arrival (of the earthquake), th