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Domestic workers in Hong Kong last year. Some 500,000 migrants from Indonesia work in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, most of them women employed as maids, nannies or caretakers for the elderly. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Ayu is a 34-year-old Indonesian maid, and the head of a pro-Islamic State network in Hong Kong. She recruits, raises funds and spreads propaganda for the group. She is just one of several dozen Indonesian domestic workers in East Asia known to endorse jihad.

Ayu — I’m using a pseudonym, because she fears trouble from the police — became pregnant young, ran away from abusive in-laws and left her baby behind to go work in Hong Kong in 2003. She consumed alcohol and drugs to numb depression. In late 2011, after losing her job as a maid for the third time, she went to Macau, sleeping on the streets for months, until she overdosed.…  Seguir leyendo »