IT was midnight when the roof of the Kwitang Afternoon Elementary School 02 on Jalan Kramat V, Central Jakarta, emitted a loud cracking sound. It finally crumbled to the ground with a great crash, splinters of roof tiles shattering across the cracked floor. Nails sprung out of broken wooden beams that lay in heaps on tiny chairs in the classroom. The school roof caved in seven hours after the students had left their benches.

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