When she was young, Utari Octavianty often felt like the underdog because of where she came from.
Her hometown is Kampung Bahru, a remote fishing village in Eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia, where many don't have access to education.
There was even a common saying: "If you come from a fishing village, you cannot win."
That's why Octavianty considered herself "lucky" when her parents sent her to a junior high school in the city. But she quickly found out that there was a "gap" between her and her schoolmates.
"I got bullied because I come from a coastal village … I was not the same as people who already had good education and had no economic difficulties,"...
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