'A Home for Myself'
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Widya Boerma retraces some of her earliest memories in Indonesia as she searches for her biological mother. Widya was adopted with forged documents, one of the thousands of Indonesians taken in by well-meaning Dutch parents in the 1970s. Never feeling at home in her adopted Netherlands or in Indonesia, Widya has struggled to answer a question that many take for granted: ‘Where do you come from.’ Instead, she must define her own identity and what it means to have a home for herself. Read Widya's blog: the-adopted.one | Visit our website: www.onthelevel.id | Follow us on Instagram: @onthelevel_media | 
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