Green `Flies'

February 3, 2004

BECAUSE of kolor ijo (green underwear) hundreds of areas in suburban Jakarta have been on Alert One. Mothers are afraid to sleep alone, fathers and youths actively go on night watch. Each house is provided with lucky charms in the form of a yellow bamboo stick and kelor leaves, which are said to be able to ward off the "green underwear" supernatural power. Police, for their part, are busy—declaring "victims" as susp

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