The Road to Mindanao
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Indonesians have been migrating to the southern Philippines since the 15th century. Subsequent waves of migration were in response to the oppressive rule of the Dutch colonial administration.
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NILAS Ansar sits on the pier deep in thought. He is oblivious to the flurry of activity around him, as fishermen clean their boats at the end of a fish auction in General Santos City in southern Philippines. His is thinking of the place of his birth in Sangihe. I came here on a sailboat, he muses. Ansar, 77, migrated to Mindanao in 1947. In good weather, it would take four days of sailing from Sangihe to Mindanao. In bad weather, it could take as
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