Word: sumbawa
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...documents produced by the UNHCR to prove their case are forged. Hasan does acknowledge that initial U.N. queries about Jacinto prompted him to relocate the boy to another orphanage administered by Hasan's Lemorai Foundation. A U.N. official says they believe Jacinto was moved to the remote island of Sumbawa to complicate their efforts to secure his return. "I don't understand the game the UNHCR is playing," Hasan says. "I'm no destroyer or kidnapper. I'm just a person trying to do some good in the world by giving children a better future. Ask the children. They...
...Neither are the workers. Yasin, who lost her job when her factory near Jakarta closed, says she can't go home to her poor rice-farming family in Bima, a town on the far-western island of Sumbawa. "The problem was that there were no jobs in my hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker...
...west of Bali, separated by a strait of just several hundred yards, is the island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language and unique history...
...government has called for Americans to avoid travel to Indonesia and has urged Americans in Indonesia to leave, I suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this crisis started...