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By APD writer Alice
Just a few weeks after the birth, the twin sisters were separated. And 24 years later, they just met each other again. That is the miraculous story of the Indonesian twins, Treni Fitri Yana and Trena Mustika, who found each other through TikTok, an app developed by Chinese firm ByteDance.
Treni and Trena were born in 1996 in Ambon city, Maluku province, eastern Indonesia.
After their birth, their parents received an offer from an elderly person to separate the twins to ensure their health until adulthood. Out of fear, they asked neighboring families to raise their children when they were two months old.
Since then, the two sisters had to live in many different families for 2 years, their parents often visited them during this time. However, they got separated after thousands of transmigrants fled Ambon following an unrest there in 1999.
Trena's adoptive family went to the city of Garut, quite close to Tasikmalaya, her hometown. Therefore, Trena was picked up to live with her other brothers and sisters.
Meanwhile, Treni's adoptive family moved to East Java and then the two families lost contact with each other. During the next time, Treni moved with her foster family to Blitar, a 10-hour drive from Tasikmalaya and was renamed Treni Fitri Yana. The sisters completely separated from each other from that time.
Trena had been on the lookout for Treni through the years. “Trena had been looking for me on national TV, YouTube and social media, but her searches came up empty handed,” Treni said.
Their reunion came after the two got wind of one another in TikTok on October 14.
Trena unwittingly saw TikTok videos of Treni, a famous blogger who owns an online shop, from a neighbor who mistook them for her work because of their resemblance. Trena dismissed the videos at first until her neighbors noted their resemblance.
“They then contacted me on TikTok and other social media platforms where they asked personal questions like my full name or who my parents were. I ignored the questions because I thought they were a scam,” Treni said.
But perhaps due to the fate as well as their similar appearance, Treni decided to contact Trena more often. In the end, they made an arrangement to meet each other in real life.
Treni decided to visit Tasikmalaya by train to reunite with Trena and their biological parents. The twins broke into tears as they embraced each other in front of their family members and officials from the Tasikmalaya Social Affairs Agency at the city's train station.
Treni is currently living in Blitar, East Java. She said she had no idea she had a twin sister until Trena contacted her since Treni's adoptive parents never told her about it.
Besides being reunited with her father and twin sister, Treni also met her six biological siblings in Tasikmalaya.
The Indonesian twins mentioned above is not the only ones who found each other through social media.
Previously, a set of Chinese twins had reunited in a similar way.Making friends online for a while, a group looking for relatives in Ruian, China decided to meet. Incidentally, both sisters in the story were members of this group. Everyone felt that they were very similar, but the two did not dare to expect too much. Being encouraged by the present families, they did DNA tests and the result showed they are twin sisters.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
