THE girls sat in rows on plastic benches. Most of them wore jeans, others in loose-fitting pants, in the style of Jakarta’s youths. Some had blonde-streaked hair. One wore a black shirt with the words, “NY Juicy Girls.” Most wore tight tank tops and trendy, wide glasses: certainly not the style of the lower class of society.

They appeared to be having their hands and feet treated at the “Ut” beauty salon, one of the many kiosks nest