When Indonesian actress Aurelie Moeremans released her memoir earlier this month, she never intended for it to start a national conversation over abuse and consent.
Her book, Broken Strings: Fragments of Stolen Youth, recounts how she was groomed as a teenager – and how long it took her to understand what had happened.
The story has struck a nerve across Indonesia, where parents, educators and officials are now asking how such harm could have happened unseen.
Made freely available online, the…
Indonesian actress exposes ‘fake’ marriage and grooming in viral memoir
