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American Confronts Terrorism Fears, Stays in Indonesia

NPR | By Michael Sullivan
Published January 3, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Anita Kendrick is an American who has known since childhood that she wanted to live abroad. She lives now in Jakarta, Indonesia, and says the richness of her life there outweighs the risk of terrorist violence, though friends and family have asked her to leave.

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Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.
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