The Terrible Numbers
January 6, 2004
INDONESIAN migrant workers should rightly be called heroes, annually generating billions of dollars in foreign exchange for this republic. Sadly, government attention to these heroes sweating at work in foreign lands is sorely lacking. Reports abound of their being abused by their employers, of those who committed suicide and those missing without trace. The migrant workers are like soldiers in battle, the only difference being that they nev
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