From Migrant Worker to Local Legislator

Baiq Nurhasanah

Nurhasanah, born in East Lombok on June 14, 1973, likens the events that have shaped her life to ports of transit: the two lengthy stays in Saudi Arabia, returning home because of homesickness and the visit of a local party leader.

"I was embarrassed because I only graduated from middle school," Baiq Nurhasanah said softly, recalling the time an official from the East Lombok branch of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (P

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