Indonesian Workers
Goodbye to the Land of Dreams
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
A law requiring foreigners in the US to register may force thousand of Indonesian workers to return home.
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The voice on the telephone that he had spoken with less than two minutes earlier continued to reverberate in Bakir Waluyojati's ears. The waiter at a Japanese restaurant in New York was still dazed. "It's better to a beggar in Malang than to be imprisoned in America," was the last sentence from his wife, who had requested that he returned home.
While Bakir was still deep in thought at his workplace, Agus Setiadi was already on board a Korean
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