Word: baharudin
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...further understand the program's dangers on the ground, listen to Baharudin Isa, the half-Dayak regional secretary for Sampit. Sitting in the relative calm of his office a few hundred yards from the teeming mass of refugees camped around the regional administrative building, a visibly exhausted Baharudin describes what autonomy will mean in Kalimantan...
...Economic rivalry is a factor. "The Madurese control all the small businesses, the trishaw drivers, the markets, the porters at the harbor," notes Baharudin, the Sampit official. Many of the Madurese competing for these lower rungs of the economy were recent immigrants, fleeing the poverty of their native Madura, desperate for work. At the site of the largest massacre, Parenggean, the town's main industry was controlled by the Madurese loggers. To make matters worse, a Forestry Department official says, the Madurese had persisted in logging forest that was sacred to the Dayaks. Now the sawmills in the town...
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