THE sun is so bright that it burns one's skin. Despite this, however, in front of a row of shops at Jalan Godean Km. 7.5, Yogyakarta,several men are busy loading sacks of animal feed onto a pick-up truck. One of them is covered in sweat after carrying and then counting the number of sacks on the truck, ready to be sent to a customer.

Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and imitation leather sandals, he doesn't look much different from the other loaders.