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Ines and Sinta attend one of the weekly prayers meeting at Ponpes the members wear white robes because white represents purity. They will pray twice before seating down to dine and chat together. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna

Ines and Sinta attend one of the weekly prayers meeting at Ponpes the members wear white robes because white represents purity. They will pray twice before seating down to dine and chat together. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna

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Trans Islam Ines and Sinta attend one of the weekly prayers meeting at Ponpes the members wear white robes because white represents purity. They will pray twice before seating down to dine and chat together. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Sinta kept telling me. You need to see us as normal people, we do love, we do pray God, we do get marry and we do have children like anybody else and this is what I did. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Ines Cinthya is preparing herself before hitting the streets. Everyday she works in a nearby busy junctionon the outskirt of Jogiakarta. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Members of Ponpes Al-Fatah are about to get ready to pray. There are normally more than a dozen shemales gathering during these meetings. The day is also an important moment to stay in touch with all the members of the community. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Maryani and her adopted daighter Rizki at the Ramadan ceremony. Maryani has been the first transgender to attend the Ramadan pubblicly among female prayers in the allocated area. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Nurkayla is chanting a paragraph from the Koran during a public event organized at Ponpes Al-Fatah. The event was a mixture of karaoke, prayers and dancing. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Kelly takes a break during one of the weekly volleyball match.They meet and play on the outskirts of Jogiakrta twice a week. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Ines Cinthya smoking a cigarette after a long day working. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Kus seats on his boyfriend's legs on the entrance hall of Shinta's house.
Kus met Adi more than ten years ago during a public performance in Jogiakarta. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna Trans Islam Ashanty on the street of Jogiakrta. She lives on the Northern outskirts of Jogiakarta where she runs her own hair and make up salon. Although some of the transgenders run their own businesses they are forced sometimes to resort to street prostitution. Trans Islam © Luca Desienna