For Prof. Taniawati Supali and the Helmire team at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, the return to Alor was more than a scientific survey. It was a return to a place that had once carried a heavy burden of lymphatic filariasis, when many residents lived with severe swelling, pain, and stigma caused by parasitic worms. More than two decades after the first field visits, Prof. Taniawati stood again beside longtime collaborators from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, not only as a researcher, but as an Indonesian partner who had walked this journey with local communities from the beginning. Together, they came back with one urgent question: had the disease truly disappeared?