East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa on Sunday called for stronger protection, empowerment and advancement of women, ...

Women around the world are carrying out a practice which not only leaves them in pain but at increased risk of HIV. 'Dry sex' involves women reducing moisture in their vaginas in order to make ...

Only the rider’s eyes are visible from behind her black face veil. With a bow in her left hand and an arrow in her right, she canters her horse towards a target, aims quickly and lets fly. The arrow ...

FAMILY JAPANESE IDENTIFICATION CARD ISSUED TO US ON ENTERING THE CONCENTRATION CAMP. My experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies) 1941 — 1945 J.E.H.

It’s 4:30am on a quiet and temperate Wednesday morning in Sugihan, a small village in Solo (also known as Surakarta) on the Indonesian island of Java. Before her three children wake up for school, Ibu ...

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Indonesian maid Rohyati says she was advised to stay in her job - despite physical abuse Like millions of poor but ambitious young women before her, Rohyati, 26, travelled to Hong Kong to work as a ...

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour, on the 7th of December 1941, we were living near the town of PALEMBANG in the South of Sumatra, Indonesia. My father was an engineer working for the SHELL.