A Minor in the Key to Heaven

The manager of an Islamic boarding school married a 12-year-old girl. Although he already returned his “wife” to her parents, legal proceedings against him will still go ahead.

November 4, 2008

ALMOST without pause, Seto Mulyadi kept dipping into the tin of biscuits served up by his host. Now and then he took gulps from the sweet tea in front of him. On Tuesday afternoon last week, the head of the Indonesian National Commission for Child Protection visited the house of Pujiono Cahyo Widianto in the village of Bedono, Jambu subdistrict, Semarang. “I came unexpectedly from Jakarta, so I haven’t had a chance to eat lunch,” said the m

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