Pulau Galang, where the protagonist lived as a refugee, is fascinating. It's a small island in a small chain which many people now call by the name of the large

Pulau Galang, where the protagonist lived as a refugee, is fascinating. It's a small island in a small chain which many people now call by the name of the largest: Batam. Today there are bridges but when the Chinese-Vietnamese refugees were encamped there, Galang Island was totally isolated. Foreign missions built churches which today are very eerie, and the refugees built their own informal economy and businesses at a moment when they had nowhere even to apply for jobs. It took many years to discharge some of those refugees (who numbered a whole lot more than the 10k suggested in this article). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galang_Island https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galang_Island