Apretty girl with long locks of hair and a slender figure steps out onto the pavement in front of Hotel Melawai in South Jakarta. With a broad smile and flushed cheeks she whispers, but with an air of absolute certainty, “I have just found the way out.” Armelita (not her real name), a 23-year-old, says she has had many difficulties in her love life over the past three years.

This girl from Durensawit, East Jakarta, has been in love