THE sun was scorching hot as dozens of workers resumed their activities at the project site of Kalibaru Port development in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta. That Thursday, November 19, they were making modules from bamboo poles to be used in the New Priok Container Terminal phase II (NPCT 2) project. “We will use them as cushions for the rocks,” a worker shouted when Tempo asked what they were making.

The bamboos will be used as th