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Marie Dhumieres

In Saudi Arabia, Indonesian Maids Are On Death Row For Sorcery

But after one maid’s decapitation, Indonesia has finally won some rights for these slave-like workers.

March 17th, 2014

By Marie Dhumieres

In Saudi Arabia, Indonesian Maids Are On Death Row For Sorcery

JAKARTA, Indonesia — After 10 years in a Saudi prison, Ati Abeh Inan finally made it back to Indonesia last month. On death row for “casting a magic spell on her employer and his family,” she was pardoned by King Abdullah. Needless to say, she was very lucky. About 40

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How A Poor, War-Weary Tropical Country Produced Its First Olympic Skier

Move over, Jamaican bobsledders. Yohan Goutt-Goncalves is one of history’s least likely Olympians.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “East Timor”? Answer “East who?” and you’re on Yohan Goutt-Goncalves’s list. If you think of a decades-long bloody Indonesian occupation, that’s impressive. But you’re still on his

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FILE - In this March 12, 1967, file photo. Gen. Suharto, is seated during a ceremony in Jarkata, Indonesia, in which he was formally sworn-in by Congress as the new acting president replacing President Sukarno. It was the darkest episode in Indonesia’s modern history: a bloody anti-communist purge that left perhaps a half-million people dead. (AP Photo)

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