The Chance to Rise Again

Pastor Abner Latue worked hard to lobby the communal landowners and the Maluku community in the Netherlands to help the refugees in Lembah Argo. His efforts were not in vain.

March 14, 2012

Holding his mobile phone to his left ear, Abner Latue greeted Tempo and led her to the brown couch in the living room of his house in Lembah Argo, a hamlet in Passo village, Ambon. A few minutes later, the 47-year-old pastor got off his cellphone and apologized. "My colleague just called to have lunch together," he said, explaining that the meeting was to discuss buying building materials for 220 former refugee households in Lembah Argo.

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