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Please respond to
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teman2,
Ada sdr saya di San Francisco yg kirim ini. dia tanya, gimana sebenarnya.
Saya tdk bisa menjawab dgn tepat krn nga "in" lagi.
Thanks dan salam,
Julia
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SAN FRANCISCO, Indonesian Christian woman gains asylum
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, March 19, 2005
An Indonesian woman living in San Jose is eligible for political asylum
because ethnic Chinese Christian women in Indonesia are periodically
targeted for rapes and other violence, a federal appeals court ruled
Friday.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should help
many Bay Area residents who have similar claims, said Robert Jobe, a lawyer
for the woman, Marjorie Lolong.
The court ruled last year that ethnic Chinese had been victims of
discrimination in Indonesia and needed less evidence of persecution than
other applicants to prove eligibility for asylum. On Friday, the court said
Christian women in the largely Muslim nation are particularly at risk.
Lolong, now 35, left Indonesia after high school because of limits on the
number of ethnic Chinese allowed to attend college. She was a student at
Golden Gate University in San Francisco when anti-Chinese rioting broke out
in Indonesia in 1998. After learning that a friend had been raped -- one of
dozens, or possibly hundreds, of Chinese women raped during the riots --
and
an uncle had been severely beaten, she applied for asylum later that year,
the court said.
An immigration judge ruled in her favor, but the decision was overruled by
the Board of Immigration Appeals, which said Indonesian government leaders
have declared their commitment to ethnic equality and religious freedom.
On Friday, the court said there was little evidence that the government was
able to control the perpetrators of violence, and that no one was ever
prosecuted for the rapes during the 1998 riots.
Chinese-Indonesians "continue to be scapegoated for the country's
widespread
poverty,'' said Judge Betty Fletcher, citing expert testimony. She said
religious violence is being stirred by a growing Islamic militant movement,
rogue elements in the Indonesian military have supported ethnic and
religious attacks, and Chinese homes and Christian churches have been
burned. The church that Lolong's parents attend has received bomb threats,
the court said.
Because of her gender, religion and ethnicity, Fletcher said, "Lolong's
fear
of future persecution is well-founded.''
Lolong, said her lawyer, lives with an ailing aunt in San Jose and works at
a local food store. Lolong wasn't available to talk to a reporter.
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