‘Though people will find this place silly and nonsense, but learning the wisdom of Allah is every Moslem’s right, including transvestites!‘ said Maryani, 48 years old transvestites who’s also the founder of the Koran School for the transvestites and transsexual named ‘Pesantren Senen – Kamis’ in Notoyudan, Jogjakarta – Indonesia. Today the ‘Senen Kamis’ Koran School has more than a hundred members from transsexual community, and some of them come from nearby cities like Semarang, Jakarta and Surabaya and their goal is to learn the Koran and its wisdom.

Although the boarding house operates twice a week, as its name ‘Monday - Thursday’, but every afternoon this place becomes a gather-ground for its members. Learn the Koran, cant in Arabic rhyme or just resting their legs after walking around of being street musician. Lots of  these transvestites earn money by becoming street musician, collecting pennies after pennies for the whole day from the people along the way. Some with the make-up skills would become make-up artists on several night clubs and some even own their own small beauty-salon. While most of them working as prostitutes in the late of nights, with the HIV pepping on the corner of  the street and the fear of  being harassed by the society of  the biggest Moslem nation in the world.