INDRI MAULIDAR

"I applied to the scholarship. It's a year long process, interviews and all that. I finally got a visa interview... the US Embassy in Indonesia called me for the interview visa around late June."

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"There's a difference between how the US Embassy treats Indonesian women and Indonesian men during the interview process."

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"(Men) have to give them more documents, like more thorough documents to provide before they get to the interview part... It's really interesting because I don't have to do that as a woman. But the men have to do that. I don't know why. I wonder about that."

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"I've been here as a student since last fall, almost a year now. I mean, everything went well. There's nothing like discrimination, I don't feel that."

"I kind of feel sometimes the faculty members are more forgiving towards international students... I don't really want that forgiving attitude."