January 12, 2016 edition

Film director Livi Zheng sent the following message last month when she was about to meet Tempo for an interview. "I'm still on a shoot, running late. Is it possible to meet at 5:30pm?" It seems she was being interviewed by a Jakarta TV station. "It's for the new year," she explained later.
Zheng, 26, was one very busy person, during her six-month trip home to Indonesia after an absence of 15 years. She was not only in demand as an interviewee by the media, Zheng also gave lectures at Gadjah Mada University, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and Surabaya University.

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December 22, 2015 edition

Eni Lestari Andayani's cellphone never stops ringing. She might as well be a walking, talking call center. Almost every day, Eni, 36, takes between five to 15 calls or short messages through WhatsApp and Facebook. Like her, the callers are domestic workers holding jobs in Hong Kong. But to them, she has become the confidante whom they can pour out their grievances.
The number of callers further increased seven years ago when Eni came to be chairperson of the International Migrant Alliance, an alliance of migrant workers from 32 countries. The grievances vary, from working relations with their employers to their rights over family matters. The latest case involved a worker form Pati, Central Java, who complained about the Indonesian government's new data recording system that implicated her in forging documents. As a result, since December 11, the person has been detained in a Hong Kong prison.

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November 24, 2015 edition

There was nothing more fascinating to five-year-old Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo than an array of defense systems in an air force base. His father, then a commander in the Special Task force used to take him to the base and then left him to wander alone. He was always drawn to the radar system at the base.
Young Josaphat then would ask the officers who were on duty, "Where were these made?" The officers showed him different radars made in different countries, the United Kingdom, Francebut none from Indonesia. It made an indelible impression on him, leaving him to wonder why his own country did not produce radars.

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