JAKARTA — Until a few months ago, Ms Widya Astuti Boerma knew her biological mother only from glimpses of memory.
Some were pleasant: a moment of them both at the sultan’s palace in Yogyakarta for example. But others were jarring, including one indelibly etched of the family’s house ablaze. And then the final one: her mother’s instructions at a Jakarta train station to “be a good girl” and go with a woman she barely knew.
Ms Widya ended up in an orphanage. She was three.
Now, 45, Ms Widya is one of a growing number of Dutch adoptees scrambling to find their biological parents in the wake of explosive local media reports, court cases and a government inquiry into illegal ad…
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