ALONE in a quiet corner of the Medan Cultural Center, 18-year-old Henny Puspita Sari is not daydreaming. She is searching for inspiration for a love poem.

The physics major at Medan University is struggling to fulfill a class assignment: to write a poem inspired by three objects-dust, cigarettes and a branch.

Weaving these elements together to describe a girl pining for her 'smoker boyfriend', Henny needed just 10 to 20 minutes to finish her piec