Smiles Amid the Sorrow

Sri Mulyani will be leaving Indonesia for four years. She worries about her three children.

May 12, 2010

VIA a long-distance phone call last week, Dewinta Illinia protested to her mother. “It’s not fair!” cried Dewinta, who is studying commercial law at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Her mother informed her from Jakarta that she would be taking on a new job that would require her to move to Washington, DC, in the United States.

It was during this international phone conversation that Dewinta, 20, reminded her mother of the pr

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