ONE afternoon, Khudad Ibrahimi, a refugee from Afghanistan, and eight of his colleagues were busy mixing cement and sand in front of a green painted house on a small hill in Citeko, Cisarua, Bogor Regency, West Java. An orange slide can be seen buried near the stone steps leading to the tile-roofed house.

They were converting a former multipurpose building into a language school for immigrant children living in the area. “We hope that our