"A sympathizer of the downtrodden and an unwavering critic of Indonesia's elite", Pak Pramoedya Toer, after a long imprisonment asked, "Is it possible to take from a man his right to speak to himself?"
There is so much to know about Indonesia than just the "Indon", migrant workers, bad hats, and leisure girls. There must be more to it than selling Proton cars and quarrel about how to spell Malay words with Indonesia.
Indonesians are very talented and rightly so. It's an old country and many Malaysians can trace their descendants from the old land. Had Indonesia been a one-land mass, they'd be at par with India and China by now. It must be a nightmare trying to manage a country with 7,000 islands, some 300 million people and with very restricted resources. Hopefully greater discovery of gas fields in Aceh will bring more prospects for socio-political gains.
If we have happy kids in Kuching, we have happy kids in Indonesia. The tapestry of their experience will embrace a greater anthology of life's stories: from the happy to the wider endearing ones.
I had put some pictures of happy kids in Kuching here.
I stumbled on some happy Indonesian kids faces from the Jakarta Post. And a few of them at work.
"...Hard Life for Young Boys
In Jakarta, life is difficult for many people. Kids must lose their happiness and work to help their parents. The young boys in these images just could not avoid their fate as they have to sell things for living. -- The Jakarta Post..."
Happy Indonesian Kids taking a breather
Indonesian kids at work
The Jakarta Post has withdrawn it's old archives containing the forgoing pictures from the Net. It's stories on street children are viewable here -
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/06/12/sexual-abuse-common-among-street-children.html-0
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