Young Volunteers Show the Way

A number of youths left their comfortable life in the big cities to work in remote areas in Kalimantan, Papua, Halmahera and other impoverished places in Indonesia. Among them are journalists, law practitioners and medical doctors. In the faraway corners of the country, they worked with communities who seem happy despite the lack of money, which they see as a source of many problems. The volunteers' experiences differ from place to place but the goal was the same: to help out. They came home quite changed, with a new paradigm in their lives. Read their stories as reported exclusively to Tempo English Edition.