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...that kadabba walked upright at all is hugely significant. Paleontologists have suspected for nearly 200 years that bipedalism was probably the key evolutionary transition that split the human line off from the apes, and fossil discoveries as far back as Java Man in the 1890s supported that notion. The astonishingly complete skeleton of Lucy, with its clearly apelike skull but upright posture, cemented the idea a quarter-century...
...corrupt until proven innocent, and if they are proven innocent, then the judge is probably corrupt. "They can change Presidents 10 times a day and my life will still be the same," Saharudin's brother had said. Sinar is disillusioned by the treatment of Malays in the area. In Java, grown men fight tears when they recall the day milk for their children became too expensive. In Aceh, the perception that the people are being ripped off leads to bloodshed. There's a constant military patrol even in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region...
...have been growing pepper and other crops for generations. Zheng He's men passed this way, primarily to fight a Chinese pirate who had been terrorizing the strait from a Palembang stronghold. And though there were already Chinese settlements there, as well as in towns such as Tuban in Java, the Chinese on Bangka were mainly drawn by - or imported for - work as tin miners in later centuries...
...migration is visible on a rutted, auburn-hued dirt track outside Pangkal Pinang, where Cung A Siuk lives. There are a handful of houses out here. Cung says there used to be fewer. There is no news, either. She's never heard of the persecution of Chinese people in Java and Sumatra. John, the photographer, and I are the first white people she has ever seen, and she's 73 years old. "If I were scared," she says, "I would have closed the door and stayed inside." Her words are translated from the Chinese-Indonesian hybrid she speaks into Indonesian...
...floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize. More often, a living wage, or the promise of one, is thought to exist elsewhere, which is why there is a constant stream of migrant workers flowing across Indonesia. Earlier, on the north coast of Java, among colorful, undulant boats sardined within a Tuban inlet, I met Lasmari, 47, who had worked for seven years in Kalimantan as a carpenter. He made decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling to leave his family again, he turned...