4:45pm - Juanda Station

   


The police say Rosita should go back to her family.

But Rosita's family has disowned her.

In Indonesia it's shameful to have relatives living on the streets.

"My life is painful."

My family won't help me

Q. Why don't your family help you, or why don't you ask your family for help?

If I ask for help from my family, my parents are old, and I don't want to trouble them.

My brothers are all mean, they like giving me a hard time. They think I get lots of money living on the street. They don't know that their sister sometimes eats and sometimes doesn't. My sisters and brothers just don't think about me.

One of my sisters works at the Cipto Hospital as a... what do you call them? Not a doctor. What are they? Nurses. A nurse in the Rose Ward. There's no way she wants to look after me. I asked her to find me work. She just ignored me. She's ashamed to have a sister like me.

"The important thing is that my sister doesn't bring shame on the family," she says. That's what she thinks. But I've never blackened the family name. She thinks that because I'm living on the streets, I might be getting up to all sorts of things.

The sister that's older than her does care for me. She even asked me to stay with her.

[But the others] You could say they've washed their hands of me. I don't get enough attention.