A Song Softly Hummed

Deported workers still dream of returning to Malaysia.

September 17, 2002

ANDI Endra's fate drifts along like a kite with a broken string. A Buginese, he used to work illegally in Malaysia—land of milk and honey—and now leads a jobless life in Nunukan. As he was an undocumented migrant worker, he had to leave Malaysia late August following the enforcement of Malaysia's new immigration policy.

Endra is just one of some 25,000 Indonesian illegal workers and their families now taking refuge in the small E

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