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Alfian
Hamzah is an Indonesian freelance journalist. He ventured into
Mindanao, Philippines, trying to entangle police’s surreptitious
investigations that implicated an Indonesian Mujahideen in the bombings
of Churches in Mindanao and McDonald’s outlet in Makassar last year.
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Bhanravee
Tansubhapol reports for the Bangkok Post on regional
issues including diplomacy. She tabbed an opportunity offered by
2003 SEAPA Fellowship Program to follow up on Thai-Cambodian Relation
in the aftermath of January’s Torching of Thai Embassy in Phnom
Penh.
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Jofelle
P. Tesorio is a environment reporter working for Bandillo
ng Palawan daily. She was long interested in the social and
environmental impact of the palm oil industry in Indonesia. This
fellowship program granted her chance to investigate the issues
and discover much more. “ I met helpful sources and connection,”
she said.
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Mic Villaflor is a senior report of Mindanao Times. She ventured
to Cambodia, her first foreign country to visit. Despite many difficulties,
not all unexpected, she witnessed the secluded lives of remaining
members of Khmer Rouge clique, most of whom refused to talk to foreign
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Faried Cahyono is writing for Forum Keadilan, an Indonesia’s political
and social magazine. He discovered he was not writing for SEAPA on
the plights of Indonesian migrants in Malaysia but for his own book.
His story is very informative. |
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Yee
Siong Tong is political reporter of Malaysiakini.com. The Malaysian
reporter visited Aceh in mid June, a month after Indonesia Army
imposed martial law on the province to suppress the Free Aceh Movement
(GAM). He attempted to analyze the army’s motivation beyond the
suppression.
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