Dreamers at the Gates

Nunukan is a favorite gateway to Malaysia for people from the eastern part of Indonesia.

September 17, 2002

MALAYSIA is a dream country. This was what Berti bin Anton imagined when he was still in his home village in Lembata, Flores, some seven years ago. A neighbor persuaded him to go to Malaysia and told him he could get a job easily there. "In a day you can earn 30, 40 or even 60 ringgit," Berti quoted his neighbor as saying. At that time 1 Malaysian ringgit was equal to Rp1,000. For Berti, a secondary school dropout, that was a big am

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