Reviving an Old Friendship
Relations between Cuba and Indonesia go back four decades, faltering after 1965s tragic events. Recently, an Indonesian parliamentary delegation visited Havana in what is seen as the first attempt to rekindle the flame of friendship between the two countries.
March 5, 2002
From the second floor of a white-colored house in the district of Reporto Nautica Playa, Widodo Suwardjo looks through the window across the Caribbean Sea to the edge of the horizon. His mind flies thousand of miles to Nanggalan, his home village in Modjokerto, East Java. On the wall hangs a painting of a village scenea bamboo house by a small stream in the lush landscape of a kampung. Dreamily, the old man, a resident of Havana for the past 30 y
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