Citizens across Indonesia will head to the polls today, Wednesday, February 15, to vote in gubernatorial and regional elections. Seven provinces will elect new Governor leadership, according to the Jakarta Post, and 76 districts and 18 cities will also hold simultaneous regional elections. The race attracting the most media attention is that for Governor of…
-By Kayla Stewart- I had my lesson ready. Using the “expressing future plans” lesson plan my counterpart discussed with me the week prior, I was going to talk to my students about how the first woman president in American would shift things for Muslims in America. For minorities. For LGBTQ people. For women. For people…
–By Lizzy Hardison– At the Fulbright Pre-Departure Orientation in Washington, DC this summer, it only took one hour for conversation to turn to Donald Trump. “As we know, there’s an election this year, and I’m wondering what we do if the country elects the candidate with, shall we say, some xenophobic tendencies,” one scholar said…
