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May 19, 2015 edition

Dewi Anggraeni
We are living in an era where many professionals cross national borders in search of better jobs. However it does not mean that it's easy to do, nor is it necessarily smooth-sailing once we land the desired jobs. Usually the onus is on the job seekers to be well prepared to adjust and readjust their own expectations to match their employers' once they are employed. And the lower they move down the social rung, the murkier the whole process becomes.

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April 28, 2015 edition

Dewi Anggraeni*
Last week, I did something I rarely do: I ran out of the room in tears before the end ofthe documentary we were watching. It was India's Daughter, directed by Leslie Udwin. The film revolves around the December 2012 horrific gang rape on a bus, of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 22-year-old medical student in the capital city Delhi. The heinous crime triggered massive protests internationally and in India itself. Udwin dedicated two years of her working life making this documentary, in which she interviews a large number of people including politicians, lawyers, convicted rapists, surviving victims and victims' families.

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January 1, 1970 edition

Emanuel Bria And Maryati Abdullah*
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is undeniably the last refuge to resolve massive and systemic corruption in post-Suharto Indonesia. Public trust on other state institutions such as the police, legislature, judiciary, public officials and political parties is very low, as they are far too involved in corruption, according to the 2013 Global Corruption Barometer report. And when it comes to fighting corruption and improving governance in the mining sector, once again KPK takes the lead.

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January 1, 1970 edition

Dewi Anggraeni*
Several decades ago, when my Indonesia-scholar friend Paul Tickell was studying at Monash University, Melbourne, he did something creative laced with undergraduate mischief: he copied a map of Australia and its northern neighbours and moved the borders of Australia and Indonesia by renaming some of the regions. Northern Territory was renamed Irian Selatan (South Irian), where Darwin became Suhartopura and another city assumed the name of Tien Town. Satisfied with his handicraft, Tickell pasted a copy of this 'recreated' map on the top panel of his lunch box. A visiting Indonesian film star, either the late Tuti Indra Malaon or Christine Hakim he can't recall now, saw it and caught its humour. Back home in Jakarta, when interviewed by Tempo news magazine, the film star mentioned the 'map', Tickell's joke. Tickell was duly flattered by this instant launch to fame. Many years later, teaching at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, a colleague who had previously worked at the Australian Defence Department told Tickell of the existence of a map reportedly created and kept at the Indonesian Defence Department on Merdeka Barat, Jakarta. When the colleague described the said map, Tickell was amazed that his creative cartography had assumed a life of its own. Then early this month Tickell realized how serious the issue was when he saw a reader's letter in The Canberra Times in which the writer implied that Indonesia had always been out to humiliate Australia, saying among others, "Don't forget that Northern Australia is still depicted as South Irian on some maps in Indonesia."

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