Seekers of the Promised Land

The possibility of being shipwrecked and being held in a detention center does not deter refugees. They will try almost anything to reach Australia.

June 13, 2012

A man scales a 5-meter barbed-wire fence. In the dim lamplight, his shadowy form quickly disappears into the darkness. Aided by rope made of sheets, the man jumps the fence, then disappears.

Soon afterwards, four other men quickly follow suit. On early Saturday morning, in early January, they attempted to escape from the immigration detention centerabbreviated rudenimin Bangil, Pasuruan, a small town in Tapal Kuda, East Java.

One of these men was

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