A Mother Figure in Taiwan
After nine years as a migrant worker, Dwi Tantri is today much like a mother to Indonesian ship crews in Taiwan, who seek her out when they’re in trouble. Half of her income goes toward advocacy work.
May 2, 2017
Dwi Tantri
People sang Happy Birthday with gusto in a hall at the Taipei Main Station on a Sunday, early last December. Scores of Indonesian workers, most of them women, were singing the song for Dwi Tantri, who had turned 49 a few days earlier. Later, they settled down to enjoy such Indonesian dishes as stir-fried sweet tempe, traditional Javanese mixed vegetables, and spicy beef stewed in coconut milk. Bu Tantri, who had four men waiting in
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