Indonesian

Right? It was queen.

So if anyone got too curious or started asking like really pointed questions, then a fixer known only as the boss man, a guy who was like fluent in both English and Indonesian, he'd step in to smooth things over.

And occasionally...

Like

It would behoove cops to let us in on these details anyway.

Nicole, she's my new hero.

She spent six months cross-referencing what people were calling the impersonator online against common Indonesian name patterns.

Oh, wow.

I was fortunate to be appointed lead counsel by the supervisor in that unit, who was Bob Conrad, who also was a legendary litigator and US attorney in North Carolina, who later became a federal judge.

James Riotti was this sort of mysterious Indonesian billionaire who allegedly gave Bill Clinton a million dollars in cash in the back of a limousine.

There were all sorts of fascinating theories on behalf of the FBI agents at the time that Bill Clinton might have actually been the Manchurian candidate, right? Because where did James Riotti befriend Bill Clinton? Little Rock, Arkansas, of all places, before Clinton even became governor, when he was just sort of an anonymous attorney general.

So it was a really interesting case for many reasons.

Also, because what it led to, the result of the case was a felony conviction of, again, this Indonesian billionaire who was essentially beyond the extradition power of the United States.

But nevertheless, we somehow got him to plead guilty to a felony and obtain the largest fine ever.

in the history of campaign finance cases, I think in part because what we held out through the State Department was the prospect of him having the opportunity to come back to the United States to visit friends and family.

Sheila grew up in Blitar, East Java, where she spoke Javanese at home and Bahasa Indonesia at school.

She arrived in Memphis as a kid, navigated an American childhood without a

roadmap.

Not because she forgot them, because it felt safer not to.

This is From Where to Here, the podcast about language, culture, and the journeys that reshape who we are.

Sheila grew up in Blitar, East Java, where she spoke Javanese at home and Bahasa Indonesia at school.

She arrived in Memphis as a kid, navigated an American childhood without a roadmap, picked up English, French, and a bit of Japanese, and taught herself Korean through K-pop and sheer curiosity.

She thought she might become a linguist.

And it's miles of tech every time anyone tries to do anything online, anything at all.

Well, and see, the worst disaster in your case, and because I don't know what you look like, I have to assume that you are like everyone on the Internet, secretly Indonesian.

Because if you've noticed anything, and I don't pay attention to VTubers at all.

Sure.

I'm sure you've seen this, which is, you know, this lovely animated woman who plays games or whatever.

Right.

The camera flickers and it turns out to be a moderately obese Brazilian and or Indonesian man.

Right.

Gareth Evans.

In Indonesian, I believe.

I think so.

Yeah.

She's got a couple of masters.

Indonesian gruff pills I could take.

Off air, we talked about the stomach pills.

And off the air, you said Irma swears by these things for tummy issues.

Javanese shipbuilders absorbed some of the techniques used by Chinese shipwrights, including the usage of iron nails, which helped Javanese technology to advance.

In 2010, an Indonesian archaeological team found two stele on the island of Serutu with Chinese language inscriptions.

The longer and better preserved inscription named Shibi and dated the stone tablet's erection to February 25, 1293, when the Yuan fleet was still sailing southward toward Java.

Chinese records stated that the Yuan fleet on this date arrived at a place the Chinese called Mount Golan.

Yeah.

Because last time you didn't know that the Indonesian ladies were the bad guys.

They are bad.

They are real bad.

Yeah.

Researchers are studying these two ancient skeletons on this Indonesian island, Sulawesi.

They find deep grooves worn into the teeth, along with traces of, it says, psychoactive compound.

So they were injecting themselves in the