Christmas Island is located closer to Java than to Australia to which it belongs. A speck in the Indian Ocean, it’s only 360 kilometers away from the southern coast of West Java and less than an hour’s flight from Jakarta. Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is located 2,650 kilometers away.

It’s to Christmas Island that many Baweanese have emigrated to. There’s a village in Bawean where most of its residents have emigrated to the A