Loud thuds were heard whenever a steel barbell slammed against the wooden floor. There were also high-pitched sounds from all the clanging with the steel weights. The noise ceaselessly continued throughout the mornings and evenings, every single day.

This building is not a blacksmiths workshop as the noise might suggest. Instead, it is a place where teenagers in Metro City, Lampung, find themselves laboring, in pursuit of their dreams. It is here