Indah Nuritasari: ‘I believe that stories, journalism is very powerful’

Indah Nuritasari was born and raised in Indonesia. She ran away from her home and to Germany in 1994, establishing the first independent journalist union soon after, when Indonesia was still under the Suharto regime.

She is a writer, journalist and has been the recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s transformation grant for work connecting immigrants and refugees to writing. Nuritasari is also the editor of the Indonesian Lantern.

Nuritasari established the Indonesian Lantern five years ago. There is a stigma, she said that immigrants are taking advantage of the system here in the U.S., that they don’t want to work and are taking away American jobs.

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Dominique “Peak” Johnson is a North Philadelphia journalist. He is one of the founding editors of the North Philly Metropolis. Currently Peak practices kickboxing, freelances for Generocity.org and occasionally tweets about The Walking Dead. Click here to learn more about Peak.