Jose Manuel Tesoro was Jakarta correspondent for Asiaweek magazine from 1997 to 2000. Born in Manila, he has lived and traveled widely in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, reporting for Asiaweek, Wired, East and the Economist Intelligence Unit. A 1994 graduate of Yale University, he is currently a student at Harvard Law School and lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is his first book. Jose Manuel Tesoro lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.