For the Love of Dinar

THE sun was shining right above their heads when more than 10,000 people gathered in the office yard of the Department of Manpower & Transmigration on the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month. Hunger and thirst could not dampen the cheers of the young women who wore headscarves and black-and-white uniform dresses. "Long live the Indonesian migrant workers (TKI)," they shouted. Some carried posters reading: "We Need Work."

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