It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.

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Sutiin, a 29-year-old from East Java, has signed a contract testifying that she receives the minimum wage.

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DSS, which was hand-rolled by thousands of employees in East Java.

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Finds from Java suggest early humans reached South-East Asia by 1.6 million years ago.

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Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.

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Siti worked for six months--often 18 hours a day, for employers who wouldn't allow her a weekly day off--but she wasn't able to send one cent back to Blitar, her home in East Java.

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