From Migrant Worker to Local Legislator
After returning home from Saudi Arabia, Nurhasanah devotes her time to helping her local community. She is now a member of East Lombok’s legislative council.
May 2, 2017
Baiq Nurhasanah
Nurhasanah, born in East Lombok on June 14, 1973, likens the events that have shaped her life to ports of transit: the two lengthy stays in Saudi Arabia, returning home because of homesickness and the visit of a local party leader.
"I was embarrassed because I only graduated from middle school," Baiq Nurhasanah said softly, recalling the time an official from the East Lombok branch of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (P
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