Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...foot inside the labyrinthine Museum of Comparative Zoology. The museum is quite a world unto itself, with its desolate corridors, dusty books, and distressing posters of magnified frogs. Wandering, I soon found the Professor of Icthyology, who bid me into his office, where I was to sit my Indonesian language placement exam...
Mothers in the Indonesian village of Cidadap don't have big dreams for their kids. Surviving infancy is often as much as they hope for, with everything else left to luck. Fikri Ramdani looked like one of the fortunate ones--active and well and, at 19 months, deep into toddlerhood. Today, however, he lies limp in his mother's arms, his eyes rolled back and his face shiny with sweat. "He used to like playing ball," says his mother Yayat. "Now he can't even stand...
Yayat is hopeful. She tickles the boy's foot to show it still has feeling, but the foot hangs limp. It may never move again. Just last week polio was officially diagnosed in Fikri, the first Indonesian child to test positive for the virus in 10 years. Three other cases have been confirmed in the area, and hundreds of other children--some suspiciously sick already--are being examined. "The virus has probably been circulating for a month," says Dr. Georg Petersen, an on-site representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). "We can expect more cases...
...event was supported by 16 on-campus organizations: the Asian American Association, Asian American Brotherhood, Asian American Women’s Association, Chinese Students Association, Korean Association, Korean International Student Association, Harvard Philippine Forum, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, Harvard Vietnamese Assocation, Hong Kong Society, Indonesian Students Association, Japan Society, Organization of Asian American Sisters In Service, Taiwanese Cultural Society, Singapore and Malaysian Association, and the South Asian Association...
...understand that we wish to protect our students, but some of the places embargoed are simply not all that dangerous. For example, it does not make sense to ban students from all 2 million square kilometers of Indonesian territory. Obviously, there are safe places and there are less safe places; it’s a big country. How unfair and unnecessary it would be to simply lump everything together...