SHE is called Nirmala. She comes from the village of Tuapakas in South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, where the Indonesian language is recognized as High Malay. Nobody knows what was going through the mind of her parents, Daniel Bonat and Martha Toni, when they chose the name Nirmala for their only daughter. According to the dictionary, the word means unstained, clean, holy or without defect. As a phrase, Nirmala also means free of danger.

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