Word: bima
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...Neither are the workers. Yasin, who lost her job when her factory near Jakarta closed, says she can't go home to her poor rice-farming family in Bima, a town on the far-western island of Sumbawa. "The problem was that there were no jobs in my hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker...
Ramleh, Palestine . .650 Bima, Dutch East Indies...
...From San Francisco we shall continue to Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon, Banda, Bima and at last arrive at our final destination, Surobaya, our great naval base which protects our rubber, tea and spice trade in the East Indies...
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