Indonesian–English parallel text
Nomor yang Salah
The Wrong Number
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A bilingual Indonesian–English edition: the Indonesian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Satu kesalahan kecil
One small mistake
Wanjiru tinggal di Nairobi. Umurnya dua puluh sembilan tahun, dan dia seorang penata rambut.
Wanjiru lived in Nairobi. She was twenty-nine, and she was a hairdresser.
Dia bekerja di sebuah salon yang ramai di pusat kota. Tetapi salon itu bukan miliknya. Pemilik salon mengambil sebagian besar uangnya.
She worked in a busy salon in the city centre. But the salon was not hers. The owner kept most of the money.
Setiap bulan, Wanjiru menabung sedikit. Dia punya rencana. Suatu hari nanti, dia ingin memiliki salon sendiri.
Every month, Wanjiru saved a little. She had a plan. One day, she wanted her own salon.
Pada Jumat malam, dia duduk di dalam bus menuju rumah dan membuka aplikasi banknya. Ada 210.000 shilling di rekeningnya.
On Friday evening, she sat on the bus home and opened her bank app. There were 210,000 shillings in her account.
“Dua ratus sepuluh ribu,” katanya pelan. “Sembilan puluh ribu lagi, dan aku bisa mulai.”
“Two hundred and ten thousand,” she said quietly. “Ninety thousand more, and I can start.”
Lalu teleponnya berdering. Itu ibunya.
Then her phone rang. It was her mother.
“Wanjiru? Ini Mama. Bagaimana kabarmu, anakku?”
“Wanjiru? It’s Mama. How are you, my child?”
“Aku baik-baik saja, Mama. Aku sedang di bus. Apakah semuanya baik-baik saja?”
“I’m fine, Mama. I’m on the bus. Is everything OK?”
“Semuanya baik-baik saja. Ya, hampir. Masalah atap lagi. Tadi malam hujan lebat, dan air masuk ke dapur.”
“Everything is fine. Well, almost. It’s the roof again. There was a lot of rain last night, and the water came into the kitchen.”
“Lagi? Apakah Mama memanggil pria dari desa?”
“Again? Did you call the man from the village?”
“Ya. Dia datang pagi ini dan melihatnya. ‘Lima puluh ribu,’ katanya. ‘Saya bisa mulai hari Senin.’”
“Yes. He came this morning and looked at it. ‘Fifty thousand,’ he said. ‘I can start on Monday.’”
Wanjiru melihat angka di aplikasi banknya. Lima puluh ribu shilling adalah hasil menabung selama lima bulan.
Wanjiru looked at the number in her bank app. Fifty thousand shillings was five months of saving.
“Maafkan Mama, anakku,” kata ibunya. “Mama tahu tentang salonmu. Mama tidak suka meminta uang kepadamu.”
“I’m sorry, my child,” said her mother. “I know about your salon. I don’t like asking you.”
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