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5 unusual facts about Gordon Bishop


Gordon Bishop

In the late 1960s Bishop began traveling around the world and ended up in Indonesia.

They married, had a daughter Naomi Melati Bishop, and the family ended up living in Central Java.

In Yogyakarta he met his wife-to-be, Nanies Siti Ahadiah Suryodiprodjo, a Javanese lady with royal blood who was performing Javanese dance during Indonesia's independence day.

Gordon Bishop (1946 – July 21, 2007) founded Joyo Indonesia News, an email-based wire of English-speaking Indonesian news.

The newswire was part of Internet activism in Indonesia that contributed to civil activism and a student movement that ultimately toppled down Suharto in 1998.



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