![]() ![]() Two years after they arrived, the military overthrew Brazil’s young democracy and established a violent dictatorship. ![]() If they thought they could escape the violence of the cold war, they were tragically mistaken. Suffering through anxiety and seasickness for forty-five days, they made their way past Singapore, across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, down past Mozambique, around South Africa, and then all the way across the Atlantic to São Paulo, the largest city in South America. Brazil was just an idea for them, and it was very far away. ![]() They set sail for Brazil, having heard from other Indonesians who had already made the journey that this place offered freedom, opportunity, and respite from conflict. Her country, one of the largest in the world, had been pulled into the global battle between capitalism and communism, and her parents decided to flee the terrible consequences that conflict had wrought for families like hers. In May 1962, a girl named Ing Giok Tan got on a rusty old boat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Suspected communists under armed guard, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 1, 1965 ![]()
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