A Bittersweet Miracle

RIZA Oktavin Nugraheni recounted with grief the evening when a landslide claimed the life of her baby. When Tempo visited her at Dr. Tjitrowardojo Regional Hospital in Purworejo, Central Java, during her recovery, the 24-year-old woman recalled her anxiety when heavy rain and wind began battering her village for three hous two weeks ago.

At 7pm on that fateful Saturday, Riza,a resident of Donorati Village, Purworejo, went out of her house to look around. She was worried because her home abutted a steep bank 40 meters high. "My house is surrounded by many trees," she said. Seeing nothing strange, Riza went back inside to get some snacks for her one-year-and-four-month-old baby girl, Elnaya Yoselin Qyla.

June 28, 2016