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Lofty Dreams of a Village Girl

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SAIFUL RIJAL YUNUS
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Febri Mustikawati

In Welahan hamlet, Grobogan regency, Central Java, most girls are married after graduating from middle school. Febri Mustikawati defied the tradition. She chose to pursue higher education. After she realized her dream, she tried to spread the same dream to other children in her village through the establishment of a reading room.

In mid-2010, ahead of her graduation from the middle school, Febri, the only daughter of the two children of Kasman and Sulistyawati, had grave doubts. She did not want to be like her neighbors or her older brother Andi Susilo who did not continue to high school upon finishing middle school. Many of them ended up working as housemaids in big cities or getting married early and staying at home to manage their households.

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