ON the veranda of his house in Triwidadi Village, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, Jumi Lestari continued with her egg-cleansing ritual, not knowing when the eggs will sell. She scrubbed five buckets of eggs, cleaning them from feces. The eggs were still warm, fresh from the coop behind her house.

On that day, hundreds of other clean eggs were arranged in wooden crates. Jumi had been waiting all day for collectors, but they did not come. Usually