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the hashtag why public radio. Aldo Felix J is a 26 year old to grew up in Jakarta, the capital

of Indonesia. And growing up, he had the same aspirations as any bright young person living anywhere

in the world. I have a dream to be a superhero. There was a superhero and a Japanese

name called Kamen Rider Black. I always wanted to be a musket rider who saved everyone.

Kamen Rider Black is this mass dude he rides a motorcycle. He fights crime. He protects the world from

evil, you know, the standard superhero portfolio. That was Aldo's dream. But as he got older,

he realized that saving everyone didn't mean taking down supervillains or jumping into burning

buildings for him. It meant going to law school and studying to be a human rights lawyer.

But Aldo also knew that making that dream happen wouldn't be easy because he's an Indonesian

of Chinese descent. And with that comes some obstacles.

You're listening to code switch. I'm Jean Demby. And I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji and this week

we're not coming to you from Sunny Los Angeles or bitterly cold DC. We're going on a trip to

Indonesia. Aldo's home and one of the youngest most populist countries in the world. And it's

safe to say there's no place on earth that's more ethnically diverse than Indonesia. Right it's a

country of 17,000 islands with more than 700 languages spoken. Indonesia's population is about

250 million which is actually not that much smaller than our population here in the United States.

And the region is actually the fourth most populist country in the world which I did not know.

With more than 300 different ethnic groups it's roughly 80% Muslim which makes it the largest

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