A Cool Breeze to Maluku
The Meeting for Maluku in the hilly hamlet of Malino ends successfully. But in the face of the myriad challenges in the strife-torn islands, it may well take a year to canvass the peace accord.
February 19, 2002
Yellow rice, and local dishes of sayuran urep (vegetable mixed with scraped coconut), perkedel jagung (fried potato balls) and fish cooked Gowa-style were the set menu for lunch as participants of the Maluku peace meeting dined to the tune of Pela Gandong, an Ambonese song that unravels the respected age-old tradition of peaceful co-existence and collaboration among Maluku people of different faith. An atmosphere of brotherhood and harmony pe
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