The Girl from Kampung Belakang

She was the first girl from Kampung Belakang to marry a Taiwanese man. Her good life in Taiwan has attracted other girls in her village to follow in her footsteps.

January 9, 2007

SHE came to the city park in Chiayi, Taiwan, accompanied by her husband and youngest child on a scooter. Yana, 26, looked fashionable. Tight jeans and a red sweater covered her slim body. Her thin lips pink with lipstick. On that day last November, the woman whose Chinese is name is Hwang Li Na, told her story to Tempo.

Yana, as she related, is a woman from Kampung Belakang, Kamal, Kalideres in West Jakarta, first married to a Taiwanese man 10 ye

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