2:15pm - Praying Association, Sarinah

   
Every week Rosita goes to Jakarta's 'church of the poor'.

They helped her when she was desperate by paying for Hendrick's funeral and Patrick's birth in hospital.

"Oh God, show me the way..."

  Every day, I still thought a bit about my husband. This is what I said. "Oh God, show me the way so that my husband can be buried? What about my children? Show me the way so that I can look after them," I said. I kept praying. In the end God answered, through Mrs Lanni, and she organised my giving birth and had my husband buried at Pondok Angun.


20,000 expectant mothers die each year

  In Indonesia every year 20,000 women die of aseptic labor, bleeding and poisoning during pregnancy as a result of poor nutritional intake, which is 50 times worse than in other ASEAN countries. The mortality rate is "equivilalent to a jumbo jet full of expectant mothers crashing every week".

The Asian Economic Crisis
Frank Ching, Asia Society, 2000