Au Revoir, Indonesia!
November 15th, 2008
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Indonesia has always been a place “way out there in Southeast Asia” for me. My world travels took me all over the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Europe, but East Asia remained a place that did not capture my professional interest until 2005, when I visited Singapore. During that trip, I remember the [...]