Revered members of the community say parents and guardians have a critical role to play in influencing the younger generation to embrace the cherished ways of life in the Deep South, which are being torn apart by addictions and the raging insurgency.
By Rapee Mama for Khabar Southeast Asia in Yi-ngor district, Narathiwat
![Students interact with facilitators during a peacebuilding workshop held in Jakarta from May 14th to 18th. [Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata/Khabar]](/shared/images/2014/07/01/140701_ISMIRA_ID_PEACE_UILDING-100_67.jpg)
![Supporters of Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa hold up fliers with their images during a June 9th debate in Jakarta. Though hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is endorsing a coalition led by Prabowo and Hatta, campaign officials say the coalition won't accept FPI's backing. [Bay Ismoyo/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/06/28/140628_ID_ADITYA_FPI_REJECTED-100_67.jpg)
![Rachid Lemlihi speaks at a July 2013 rally in Tetouan, Morocco, one month before he left for Syria. What he expected was far different from what he experienced: unwelcome foreigner fighters fighting one another, not Syrian government forces. [Mohamed Saadouni/Khabar]](/shared/images/2014/06/27/140627-SAADOUNI_LEMLIHI_KHABAR-100_67.jpg)
![Mariyah Nibosu, whose husband was shot dead in 2009 by unknown gunmen, stands outside her home in September 2013 in the state-run 'widows' village' of Rotan Batu, 20km from Narathiwat. "Women suffer a lot here," she said. "But we are strong. We have to feed our children by ourselves. We have to survive." [Christophe Archambault/AFP]](/shared/images/2014/03/25/140325-KSEA_TH_DEEPSOUTHVICTIMS1-270_180.jpg)
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