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Sri Tiawati: The Tribe’s Stubborn School Teacher

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Sri Tiawati was adamant to build a school for her tribe in Semeriot village. She was once embarrassed to have been a native of Dayak Punan.

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STANDING in front of 12 Punan Dayak children, Sri Tiawati distributed books and stationery at the end of 2014. Sri taught at a locally-established school in Semeriot, a hamlet in Ujang village of Bulungan Regency, North Kalimantan. She had tried giving lessons like in a formal school—by standing in front of the students. But she realized, the children did not like it. “The kids hated me and my teaching equipment,” Sri recalled h

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