Thanks to "Google Maps" ... an Indonesian returns to his family, 11 years after he was kidnapped

An Indonesian boy found his family thanks to the use of Google Maps 12 years after he was kidnapped by a street artist.

Irfan Wahyu Angasuru, now 17, was kidnapped from Regency Serangan in Indonesia's Central Java province, where he was kidnapped by a street-singing artist on his way home from a video game store when he was five.

The British newspaper "Daily Mail" reported that the street artist told him that he would accompany him to the house, but instead he kidnapped the little boy and forced him to work with him.

After two years of living on the streets, police chased the street artist one day and the little boy ended up in an orphanage.

During his stay in the orphanage, the boy began to remember his old life with his family, and he succeeded in locating a grocery store that he used to go to with his grandmother to buy the needs of the house.

The teenager used Google Maps to locate the shop, and gave the address to the orphanage supervisors who contacted the grocery store and obtained information and photos of the family.

Irfan told the newspaper: "I still remember the faces of my father, mother and brothers."

His father, “Suparno”, admitted that he had almost lost hope of finding his son after 11 years, but that he still had hope that he was alive and well.