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Condition of Indonesian Women Migrants still deplorable in Malaysia
Dec 21 2006, Pooja

Indonesia, a country with more than 200 million people is still not recovered from the 1997 Asian economic crisis consequent upon which, many people drift abroad in search of a better life particularly women and children.

Not only were they harassed,..

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