Word: indonesianness
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...would a U.S. apparel manufacturer have its wares manufactured in China if it had to pay American-level wages? So just as what's good for business isn't always good for all of society, what's good for the American worker isn't always good for the Indonesian worker...
...Arab and a Muslim. Indeed, in a conversation with me Wednesday night, Oppenheim asked me the difference between the Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Islamic Society. Arab is an ethnicity, Islam a religion. Members of Islam come from many different ethnic and national groups such as African, Indonesian, American, Indian etc. The Arab world only constitutes 18-20 percent of the world's Muslims...
...more likely to get away with corruption if you do it by the book. That may be the lesson from the case of former Indonesian dictator Suharto, who on Monday was let off the hook by a government corruption inquiry that found no evidence that he?d diverted state funds into his own charities ? even though it turns out some of those charities were receiving public money and then loaning it to private corporations. But Suharto may be benefiting from the narrow terms laid down for the inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe...
Haryanto said he has spent the last three years agitating for improved conditions in Indonesian factories and organizing an independent union...
According to Haryanto, the Indonesian government overlooks the poor working conditions...