Shattered Dreams

January 6, 2004

THE 23-year-old girl from Desa Sumber Pucung in the East Java district of Blitar could only bemoan her fate: she has practically lost ownership of an 800-square-meter plot of land belonging to her family. Although her parents and three siblings still occupy the property, Dewi (not her real name) no longer has the certificate of ownership in her hands. "I surrendered the certificate to the labor agent who sent me to work in Japan

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