What follows is a Question & Answer Interview with our featured family in Indonesia.

Q: How many members are there in your family?
A: Mom, Dad, 2 older brothers, 1 sister in law, 1 younger sister and a niece. So eight including me.

Q: What are the ages of the children?
A: Older brothers: 32 and 30, sister in law: 32, younger sis: 26, niece: 2, I am going to be 28 in June.

Q: Are both parents living at home?
A: Yes, they are.

Q: How many members are working to support your family?
A: Except my dad (retired) and my niece, all are working.

Q: What do they do for work?
A: My mom & second brother run our family business (printing company). Eldest brother and wife run their own interior design company (they are both architects). I work for Andersen Consulting as finance specialist My younger sis works for a local bank as a customer service officer.

Q: What issues are you affected by? What are some major issues affecting your country right now? How and in what ways are you most affected?
A: No particular issues affect me directly.
Issues affecting my country :
- corruption, collussion and nepotism
- economic crisis
- racial, religions and ethnics issues

Q: What is your opinion on the issues and status of your nation?
A: Indonesia is still a very infant country when it comes to democracy and human rights issues. It still needs years to clean up the mess and have a good government.

Q: How is your family directly being affected by the problems/and or good things from relations with other countries? We are afraid of what might happen to us, being Chinese. The May '98 riots show us.

Q: How is your family doing financially?
A: Financially secured.

Q: If you were in charge, how would you fix the problems; what would you do and what do you think is the solution?
A: I would start by taking off all those corrupt important people from their positions. Replace them with good honest people, use the funds to improve the country's economy and the people's welfare. Make sure that good education is being delivered to all citizens regardless of where they are, in big cities or in remote areas. Control the budgets and funds tightly and wisely, and good educations are the key points.

Q: What has your government done to take care in stopping any problems? Or, in positive cases, what has your government done to avoid them and stay successful?
A: So far, not much. Most of the efforts are fake and save-faces ones. No real actions.

Q: Is there something you really like about your government, or something you really don't like?
A: I don't like most of the current government's policies.

Q: What do you think could change for the better in your government?
A: Change the people in the government, rules, regulations and constitutions

Q: What kind of education have your children received, or are receiving?
A: University graduates or higher.

Q: What are some traditions/rituals of your culture that your family abides to?
A: We still follow some Chinese traditions like using certain Chinese names to call your elders, celebrate Chinese New Year, or other Chinese events.

Q: What is the predominant religion in your area?
A: Islam

Q: Is your family happy?
A: Yes, I guess we are happy.