Kalimantan's Hearts of Darkness

A police officer faces charges of abuse of his under-aged housemaid. The legal system has proved worthless in the quest for justice—or at least a real decision.

December 11, 2000

Martina is most definitely not Inem, the lucky and sexy maid from the well-known movie. She is quiet: a simple laborer's daughter. After working for three years as a housemaid, she had never been paid. She needed the money to pay for her elementary school certificate, the school she what seems a lifetime ago. But instead of payment, all she received was a visum at repertum describing in detail the wounds all over her body—the fruits of yea

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