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Indonesia gripped by badminton craze after Tokyo Games victories
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Badminton fans are pictured at Ratu Jaya sports hall in Depok, West Java. In Indonesia, the sport is played by people from all walks of life.
PHOTO: LINDA YULISMAN
JAKARTA - For little Khalimatus Sadiyah, mocked by her peers because the weakness in her right arm and leg meant she had to play left-handed, Paralympic badminton gold must have seemed like another life away.
As for seven-year-old Leani Ratri Oktila, practising her strokes by the light of a kerosene lamp in a remote village in the Riau province, who could have foreseen the journey her determination would take her on?
