Yogyakarta 38 days of exile My friends at Wal-Mart have been getting rave reviews for how well they have handled Katrina. They ponied up $23,000,000. They had trucks ready to come in as soon as the roadblocks went down. Some of their store managers opened the stores to allow public safety and other folks to reprovision …
Month: September 2005
Tourism Sector Workers
Jakarta 37 days of Exile We had heard that the Independent Federation of Tourism Sector Unions or in Indonesian the Federasi Serikat Pekerja Mandiri (FSPM) was an aggressive, grassroots union operation making strong headway among particularly the internationally branded hotel properties in Jakarta. These folks were so close to the ground though that they did not …
Urban Poor Consortium
Jakarta 36 Days of Exile The one thing you heard over and over again before coming to Jakarta is that the traffic may be the worst in the world. Reading V. S. Naipul’s Among the Believers some years ago the passages about endless hours stuck in traffic in Jakarta stayed with me longer than many of …