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CHAPTER EIGHT. THE FOUNDATION
This chapter draws heavily on information from grant files in the Ford Foundation archives. In addition, I had access to some of Ann Sutoro’s personal papers, field notes, and correspondence from this period. I’ve also relied on interviews with Terry Bigalke, Halimah Brugger, Bill Carmichael, Carol Colfer, Bill Collier, Alice Dewey, Michael Dove, Jim Fox, Adrienne Germain, Ann Hawkins, Rens Heringa, Richard Holloway, Kay Ikranagara, Tim Jessup, Sidney Jones, Tom Kessinger, David Korten, Frances Korten, David McCauley, Georgia McCauley, John McGlynn, Paschetta Sarmidi, Adi Sasono, Suzanne Siskel, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Saraswati Sunindyo, Julia Suryakusuma, Frank Thomas, Pete Vayda, Yang Suwan, and Mary Zurbuchen. Some information on the history of the Ford office in Jakarta came from Celebrating Indonesia: Fifty Years with the Ford Foundation 1953–2003, published by the Ford Foundation in 2003.
220 “Life in the bubble”: Interview with Mary Zurbuchen, September 30, 2008.
225 William Carmichael, Ford’s vice president: “Recommendation for Grant Action,” April 18, 1985, PA 800-0893, Ford Foundation Archives, 4–5.
226 Ann wrote in 1981 to Carol Colfer: Letter from Ann Sutoro to Carol Colfer, February 2, 1981, PA 800-0893, Ford Foundation Archives.
227 “With all this complexity”: Memorandum to the files from Ann D. Sutoro, November 3, 1981, PA 800-0893, Ford Foundation Archives.
228 “a country of ‘smiling’ or gentle oppression”: Memorandum to participants, Delhi Conference on Women’s Programming, from Ann Dunham Soetoro, April 18, 1982, PA 809-0878, Ford Foundation Archives.
230 “our best reference on the condition”: Memorandum to the files from Ann D. Sutoro, March 16, 1984, PA 835-0145, Ford Foundation Archives, 2.
231 “Okay, sport”: Interview with Sidney Jones, July 1, 2009.
231 “How do you think she felt?”: Interview with Saraswati Sunindyo, February 17, 2009.
231 “a lonely witness for secular humanism”: Obama, Dreams from My Father, 50.
231 her chin trembles: Ibid., 126.
231 “the unreflective heart of her youth”: Ibid., 124.
231 “helping women buy a sewing machine”: Ibid., xi.
253 “looked like a black ball surrounded by a brilliant white light”: Ward Keeler, “Sharp Rays: Javanese Responses to a Solar Eclipse,” Indonesia, 46 (October 1988), 91–101.
259 helped shift the government’s focus: Memorandum to the files from Mary S. Zurbuchen, October 29, 1998, PA 800-0893, Ford Foundation Archives, 6.
CHAPTER NINE. “SURVIVING AND THRIVING AGAINST ALL ODDS”
Material in this chapter came from interviews with Jim Boomgard, Alice Dewey, Michael Dove, Ralph Dunham, Ben Finney, Jim Fox, Rens Heringa, Dick Hook, Mary Houghton, John Hunt, Don Johnston, Nina Nayar, Barack Obama, Dick Patten, Sarah Patten, Marguerite Robinson, Sabaruddin, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Garrett and Bronwen Solyom, Eric Stone, Made Suarjana, Julia Suryakusuma, Trisulo, Sonny Trisulo, and Yang Suwan. In connection with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, I spoke with Sulaiman Arif Arianto, Kamardy Arief, Ch. Oktiva Susi E., Cut Indriani, Sriwiyono Joyomartono, Agus Rachmadi, Slamet Riyadi,Tomy Sugianto, Flora Sugondo, and Widayanti and Retno Wijayanti. I also drew on personal papers and field notes of Ann Dunham’s, her letters to Dewey and Suryakusuma, her reports to the bank, her unpublished dissertation, and her curriculum vitae.
263 helped make up the difference: Interview with Maya Soetoro-Ng.
265 “spir. develop (ilmu batin)”: This appears to refer to spiritual development. Ilmu batin is an Indonesian phrase referring to esoteric learning or mysticism.
267 Madelyn would rent a hotel room: Interview with Adi Sasono, January 22, 2009.
269 first credit project for women and artisan-caste members: Ann Dunham, curriculum vitae, 1993.
269 In the Punjab: Dunham, “Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds,” 877–879.
272 “in many ways the most spiritually awakened person”: Obama, The Audacity of Hope, 205.
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