Social media frees family from shackles of poverty


KLANG: Life for Indonesian Sri Muliani Surbakti and her Malaysian husband Mahendren Manogara was a major struggle until she literally discovered the magic of social media.

The mother of two narrates how desperation and abject poverty due to her husband’s meagre income as an oil palm estate worker had driven her to create a lifestyle vlog (video blog).

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