ONE day in late December 2005, Seto Mulyadi sat perplexed in the living room of his home. The child psychology specialist was listening to what 14-year-old Eka Putri Duta Sari, his eldest daughter, was telling him. A third-grade student at the Global Jaya Junior Secondary School at Bintaro, she confided to her father that she loathed going to school.

Within months Minuk, as her friends call her, would have to be ready to sit for final examinations