At a glance: Indonesia

Real lives

Child centres help separated children rejoin their parents
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, 18 January 2005 – For the first time since late December, seven-year-old Putri Mulyanis is together again with her family, having spent the intervening weeks not even knowing whether her parents and siblings were still alive.

Eyewitness account of the devastation in Aceh, Indonesia
ACEH, Indonesia, 31 December 2004 - A young boy clings to a plank. People are watching him from the bridge above. They stare for a few moments, and then move on. The boy’s dead body lies atop a sea of debris, the gentle ocean swell rocking him against the bridge’s wooden pillar.

Fighting sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indonesia
Dewi  and her younger sister, Yani, rehearse a play in the backroom of a nondescript house in Surakarta, a city of 1 million inhabitants located in Central Java, Indonesia. The play, Eka, is about a girl abducted and sold into the sex trade.

Indonesia: Pink elephants and marbles energize education
“Assalamu’alaikum, in the name of God most gracious and most merciful, this is Nila Megasari and you are listening to 97 FM, MBS radio. Here are today’s stories about the adventures of the pink elephant and his friends the cats, for the students at Kalisari elementary school.”

Indonesia: Water and sanitation and the ‘little doctors’
The mothers of Banjar Sari in Indonesia beam with pride as they watch their children performing in the primary school play. But the mothers are more than entertained by the young actors, they are also learning valuable lessons.