Meet dream child from Soppeng

Meet dream child from Soppeng

JAKARTA (JP): Dian Mayestika Putri, 5, has no ordinary eating and sleeping disorder. The little girl living in Soppeng, South Sulawesi, won't eat and sleep until her dream to meet a government official comes true.

So since Dian showed the strange symptoms last Ramadhan, her mother has gone all the way to meet some top local bureaucrats, such as South Sulawesi governor HZB Palaguna, local military chief Maj. Gen. Suaidi Marasabessy, Parepare regent Basrah Hafid, Soppeng regent Andi Paeruddin Saisal and Ujungpandang mayor Malik B. Masry.

Dian's puzzled relatives have consulted her unusual habit to a psychiatric only to be assured that the girl has no mental disorder.

The latest she made a scene was on Tuesday when her mother introduced her to mayor Masry in Ujungpandang as she irresistibly demanded.

Dian wanted to see the mayor without her mother because she did not want her conversation with the official heard by anyone else, Antara reported.

The amused mayor revealed later that Dian prayed for him to become a cabinet minister someday. She refused the money he offered and instead she accepted a satin sarong and a clock.

Now the petite girl is aiming big: she wants to see President B.J. Habibie. (pan)