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A Mother Figure in Taiwan

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

After nine years as a migrant worker, Dwi Tantri is today much like a mother to Indonesian ship crews in Taiwan, who seek her out when they’re in trouble. Half of her income goes toward advocacy work.

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Dwi Tantri

People sang Happy Birthday with gusto in a hall at the Taipei Main Station on a Sunday, early last December. Scores of Indonesian workers, most of them women, were singing the song for Dwi Tantri, who had turned 49 a few days earlier. Later, they settled down to enjoy such Indonesian dishes as stir-fried sweet tempe, traditional Javanese mixed vegetables, and spicy beef stewed in coconut milk. Bu Tantri, who had four men waiting in

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