Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, Diefenbach said that the flag has been especially meaningful to him because of his time in the foreign service. During the 1960's, he was stationed in Indonesia, where massive anti-American protests were occuring. Two Indonesian employees risked their lives to keep the flag flying, Diefenbach said...
...book will be an oral history portrayal of the role of Women in the Indonesian revolution...
...definitely easier to keep in touch--[e-mail] is free, and it's fast; airmail takes a week at least," says Indonesian student Michael Sosanto '95, who regularly e-mails his friends from junior high...
Only a week before Bill Clinton was due to arrive in Indonesia for a state visit, a court in the northern city of Medan sentenced labor leader Muchtar Pakpahan to three years in prison. Pakpahan is the sixth official of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union to be convicted in connection with workers' riots that wrecked several factories and blocks of shops in Medan earlier this year. Sixteen of his colleagues are still on trial in what looks to many like an attempt to bust a union that the authoritarian Indonesian government views as dangerously independent. U.S. officials "deplored" Pakpahan...
...says, "because there are universal standards of human rights." < Child labor should be banned, and there should be an international standard for calculating fair wages, she says. More specifically, Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch/Asia insists American executives ought to protest to the Indonesian government about the sentencing of Pakpahan and other union leaders...