7:25am - Juanda Station

   
Rosita struggles on.

She has Angel, her 6 year old daughter.

They've lived at the station for three years.

Her husband (Angel's father) took up with another woman when Rosita was 9 months pregnant.

"Will you let me take a second wife?"

"I married Marzaeni at 17."

  It began in... Cilincing. Near my brother's house. My father had died not long before.

Just as I was buying flowers to scatter on the grave, Marzaeni suddenly started talking to me. Then he told me all his problems. That moved me. [I thought] maybe he's my soul-mate. After I got married we lived with my in-laws and before long I was pregnant. But when I was nine months pregnant I had a really bitter experience. My husband left me.


"When Marzaeni left me..."

  [Muslim men in Indonesia are allowed two wives, but must have the consent of their first wife.]

Q. What an experience, to be pregnant, and abandoned by the father. Where did you get your money each day? How did you survive? How were you able to eat?

Well, for the time being I couldn't do anything, could I? So my in-laws helped me. Then I had feelings because he rented the house next door. Basically, we became neighbours. Sometimes, she came to visit me. "What's wrong with you? Why did you steal my husband?" I said. "Better ask your man about that. I didn't seduce him." she said.