Waiting For Flowers to Bloom

Nurjanah almost left Aceh after 18 years of pursuing her career there. But at the corners of the refugee barracks she discovered the important meaning of her knowledge.

December 27, 2005

THEY emerged together with heaps of debris, wood, garbage and mud. Their bodies were in bad shape, but at a glance people knew that spiritually they suffered much more.

That was over a week after the tsunami. Nurjanah Nitura and her family were safe, and this time she and her brother were in a car. They were passing a group of people who were watching a row of corpses lying by the road. People who had lost their relatives. But Nurjanahs eyes were

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