Exiled Indonesian Journalist Wants to Go Home
Under threat of assassination, CM Rien Kuntari fled to New York in 2009.
It’s been another challenging year in New York for CM Rien Kuntari.
Speaking to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism news site NY City Lens, she explained that as her asylum application process has dragged on, her Indonesian passport expired at the beginning of the year and she was denied permission to travel overseas this fall. Kuntari fled to the U.S. from Indonesia in 2009 after her book East Timor, The Final Hours: A Journalist’s Notes prompted the country’s military to reportedly target her for assassination. From
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