STORIES : The Night Children of Java
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Solo, Indonesia. Dewi (17) has lived on the streets for many years. Now she is pregnant from her boyfriend. They live in a humid, smelly basement room that is too low to stand up straight. The nearby river regularly floods in the monsoon season, sometimes submerging their room. During her pregnancy she can't work as a prostitute. Her boyfriend got some tools from a local NGO to start a bicycle repair shop. the police closed the workshop because he had no permit. They are left without an income now.
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