Home of the Lepers
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Feeling ashamed, most sufferers of leprosy who were treated at the Jongaya complex do not want to return to their villages. They chose to adopt the settlement on the outskirts of Makassar as their new home and started to build their lives anew. Here are their stories.
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Amin (50)
Muhammad Amin Rapi, usually called Amin, shouldn’t be a parking attendant. He remembered his raging feelings holding the two pieces of paper. He was fired as a staff member at the South Sulawesi Regional Inspectorate in 1985. “I was only a step away from receiving civil servant status,” narrated Amin. “I saw how the stigma and the discrimination at the time were still extremely strong,” recollected the slightly built man. �
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