A CUP of coffee will cost you Rp. 30,000 at Starbucks Coffee in Jakarta. Amazingly, this is the total salary a contract teacher receives in the interior of Kalimantan. One such teacher is Sakiyah. She is attached to the 027 State Primary School in the district of Teluk Dalam, Kutai Kertanegara Regency.

Sakiyah earns Rp30,000 a month teaching English six days a week at the school. She really has a tough job. To get to school, the 24-year-old h