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I never saw any older women with that "condition". I would imagine that they were taken of the medication and their breasts returned to normal.
As far as I could tell, they weren't treated any differently from other kids their age, maybe coddled a bit. We came across one girl that was still asleep at 10:00 in the morning, another that was having her hair checked for lice. With the grossly over-sized mammaries, you'd expect that they might be exempt from regular household chores.

I wouldn't blame them for the retreating Glaciers, though.

Regarding the photos, we were in heavy shade, so I used a fill-in flash. They turned out really well. The girls were eager to get into the pictures, laughing, the sarongs came down, nipples erect, crowding in on myself and Peter, lotsa fun. At one point Tori, standing out on the road with the dogs barking at her, yelled something in Dutch at Peter, and I caught the word "Pornographic". Peter called back something about "Anthropological Documentation", it was hilarious.
I got one roll of prints developed in Singapore. Once in more civilized territory, I started to meet other travellers. That route, overland from Sydney to London, was pretty popular back then. It was known at the "Hippy Trail". But nobody went along Java and Sumatra on the North side. Everyone I met who talked about taking that route (after seeing the pictures) I tried to talk them out of it. Absolutely no amenities for tourists. Every night you had to negotiate for a place to sleep, something to eat, get your laundry done. Lice. Travel on little rickety busses, canoes, actually walking across streams on logs at some points. I went eight days without meeting anybody that could speak English, and when I finally did, all she wanted to talk about was Jesus. Useless to carry any currency larger than 100 Rupiahs in those backward places, nobody had change. Major hassle. Nobody knows you're back there, you get sick in a place like that you could die.

Unfortunately, the South slopes are completely Industrialized, real [censored]-holes. There were close to 100 million people living on Java alone. The north side was agricultural and jungle. Logging hadn't taken off. Back then Indonesia was under the rule of a dictator, Suharto. You'd see these big round concrete pads every here and there, painted white with a red "S" in the center. Helicopter Landing Pads, a reminder that Suharto himself just might swoop in out of the sky at any given time.

On the plus side - The largest Bhuddist Temple in the World at Borobudur. Built 1,000 years ago of black polished stones without mortar. The idea was the whole place would come tumbling down in an Earthquake, and could be re-built. It's stood up all these years, amazing.