Rosa Dahlia
Light of Lanny Jaya

IT was almost midnight when the five seven-year-olds piled up their books on the table in the middle of the room. It was still raining outside. But Rosa Dahlia told the kids to quickly go home. As a teacher in Lualo District, Lanny Jaya Regency, Papua, she worried that they would come late to school the following day. "The next day, we were supposed to go swimming at a spring," Rosa explained in an interview two weeks ago.

This activity was to replace their regular Saturday film showing. That had to be canceled because she had left her laptop behind in Poga, a three-hour walk from Lualo. During the rainy season, the unpaved path connecting the two places turns to mud.

April 19, 2016