Word: soekarno
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While cases of death at the hands of overseas employers are relatively rare, Normawati says she has seen countless pregnant Indonesians coming through the gates of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after working abroad. She says the most disturbing of experiences can be heard again and again from the lips of different women: "The boss tells the woman, 'You must be with me.' Then rape...
...Munir was leaving all of that behind, at least temporarily, when he arrived at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on the evening of Sept. 6. A Dutch university had awarded him a year-long scholarship to study for a master's in international law, and Munir was in a buoyant mood when he boarded Garuda Flight 974 to Amsterdam. He sent an SMS to colleague and friend Rachland Nashidik that read: "Please take care of the office and my wife and kids." On a stopover in Singapore, a fellow passenger, Tarmizi Hakim, recognized Munir and introduced himself. "There...
...Suharto offspring are known, were key participants in the family treasure hunt. Sigit, the eldest son, was apparently pushed into business by his mother, Madam Tien, whose own behind-the-scenes dealings in the 1970s earned her the nickname "Madam Tien Percent." Two sources who worked on Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport project say that by the time its two terminals were finished in 1984, $78.2 million had been handed to Sigit in markups that appeared as cost overruns. Second son Bambang was given a slice of the lucrative business of importing and distributing basic commodities, such as wheat...
...during the period of this project that the only Indonesian military man studied at the Center for International Affairs (or in any other part of the University as far as I know). Colonel R. Pirngadie was sent by the Soekarno government, primarily to study economies and management, since he was slated to be in charge of the government's tin-mining operation. On his return he became director of the nationalized tin mines, and later was in charge of the Indonesian pavilion at the World's Fair for the Soekarno government. Pirngadie was dismissed after the end of the Soekarno...
...first DAS advisor again arrived in Indonesia. The economists who were one of the influential groups in forming the Goverment's economic policies (groups of senior military officers are also influential) had asked the DAS for a small (4-5 economists) advisory group. Since the economists, unlike the Soekarno regime, were fully committed to economic development and a fight against inflation which had particularly affected landless laborers and the urban poor, the DAS agreed to provide such a team. (Soekarno had many times expressed his contempt for the significance of economic problems...