Deden Noy, an Indonesian musician who turned his dreams into reality

D eden Noy (29) lives in the village of Batu Lambang in the Bengkulu province. Since he was in middle school, Deden admired Mike Portnoy, an american musician. It all started when a friend of him gave him a VCD album of the band Dream Theater. Since then, Deden said he idolized and made Mike Portnoy a role model in playing the drums, and his admiration for the american musician was immortalized by adding the name Portnoy behind the name of his first child, Tama Aditya Portnoy (10) When Deden graduated from high school, he began working as a scavenger. " Day and night I look for used trash to sell. In the area I can't make a living relying on my drum skills, " he said with a laugh. Things got worse in 2016, when the price for the garbage Deden collected had dropped. Even so, he learned the art of recycling; or how to turn old garbage into new stuff. The skill that he had learned was definitely worth it, as it wo...