Looking for A Way Back Home
Monday, January 30, 2023
The majority of Sampang’s Shia refugees living in apartment units in Jemundo, Sidoarjo, had pledged allegiance to Sunni two years ago. But the road home has not been completely clear.
HATIMAH approached us as we talked on a bench on the terrace of the unit of belonging to the couple Rizkiatul Fitriyah—or Fitri—and Iklil al-Milal, on the ground floor of Puspo Agro Apartment in Jemundo, Sidoarjo, East Java. Her left hand was badly damaged, losing almost all the fingers. “Because it got into the coconut machine,” Fitri translated Hatimah’s explanation in Madurese, late last November.
Hatimah was not
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