AROUND 30 scavengers were watching attentively the movement of a dredger on a pontoon floating in the Western Flood Canal near the Manggarai Floodgate, South Jakarta. Every time the machine poured mud from the bottom of the stream, they were racing to grab scrap metal, plastic and other items contained in it.

Since two weeks ago, these scavengers have no longer searched for scrap in garbage dumps. They choose to wait for the discharge of the dredg