Lebaran Gift for Sidewalk Vendors
While sidewalk vendors were away at home for the Lebaran holidays their area was cleared away. They're considered a disease when actually they're a huge potential.
December 24, 2002
Ferdi is anxious, not sure how he will survive. After returning from mudik (going home for Idul Fitri), the 25-year-old street vendor returned to his "work place" under the Harco Glodok bridge in Jakarta, only to be greeted by a worrying sight. Figures in brown uniforms, the trantib (law and order) officers, were guarding what used to be the place he made his living, selling VCDs. It was those same officers who had removed his lapak (pl
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