We are family: Arif Pratama Rangkuti (middle, in yellow) and Raudhatul Jannah (second from right) were swept away by the tsunami. Their father Septi Rangkuti (third from left), who remembers putting them on wooden debris to stay float, was too depressed to work for four years. — The Straits Times, Singapore
Lost children brought back to their family almost a decade on.
FOURTEEN-year-old Raudhatul Jannah smiles and looks away bashfully when spoken to. A teen believed to be her 17-year-old brother, Arif Pratama, interrupts with boisterous outbursts.
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