Now the girls were crying for hours at a time. That same day, Rini got a call from a notary who invited her to an office on the third floor of the hotel to sign some documents. The notary was there along with two officials from Lion Air, and they showed her a release form that she’d need to sign to claim 1.3 billion rupiah, or $91,600. “I was not in a state to sign anything,” Rini said. A petroleum engineer who also happened to be fluent in English, she scanned an appendix that listed eight pages of companies grouped into two columns, more than four hundred names in all—including Boeing, Lion
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