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...Wahyu Nanikpurwandari wrong, she is grateful for what she has. The 26-year-old from Lampong, Indonesia, feels fortunate to live in Hong Kong where she works as a domestic helper. She feels lucky to be able to send money home to support her sister and brother. Maybe sleeping in her employer's living room isn't so nice, but there isn't space for her anywhere else. And yes, working 16 hours a day, six days a week can be exhausting, but that's her job. She earns less than $1 an hour, and that's okay...
...Foreign maids?67% of them from the Philippines, 29% from Indonesia?are already the lowest paid workers in Hong Kong: they make even less than local domestic helpers, who earn about $5 per hour, although that's down from approximately $8 per hour a few months ago. "These are the people with the least amount of power and the lowest pay in society: maintaining their pay is the humane thing to do," says Maria Zeneida Angara-Collinson, Philippine Consul-General in Hong Kong. "If the government is looking at this as a way out of the economic slump...
...dozen deaths in inter-religious violence on Sulawesi might have rated little more than a few minutes on CNN. But in the post-Sept. 11 world, battlefield victories by Laskar Jihad will have a profound impact on external debt negotiations, international investment and other issues critical to Indonesia's stability. Although there is little evidence that militant Islamic groups in Indonesia have links with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, the growing strength of Laskar has already set alarm bells ringing in Washington. Noting the lack of Indonesian border controls and the recent flood of Afghan refugees, the commander...
...July, they were formally received by the Governor of Central Sulawesi province and the head of the local parliament. Such a welcome underscores what the group's opponents and many independent analysts say is the greatest challenge to controlling the militants: their support at the highest levels of Indonesia's government. From direct infusions of cash to fund the fighters to phone calls to local military commanders to prevent crackdowns, sympathizers have ensured that the Laskar Jihad can operate with impunity. The current total of its fighters on Sulawesi?as high as 7,000 by some estimates?far outnumbers...
...Laskar jihad was founded in 2000 by an unassuming Islamic teacher named Ja'far Umar Thalib. A 40-year-old from the east Java heartland of Indonesian Islam, Ja'far's mild demeanor disguises a fierce devotion to what he sees as the plight of Muslims in Indonesia. Like many of Southeast Asia's radical Muslims, he spent several years in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the mid-1980s, both studying and fighting against the Soviet invasion. (Ja'far says he met Osama bin Laden then, but was unimpressed: "He couldn't even read the Koran without stumbling...