Fortune Favors the Art Market

The profits expected from the Java World project are alluring. Are small-scale vendors being ignored?

February 4, 2003

As the sun sets behind the domes encircling the Buddha statues at the Borobudur Temple and dusk descends, 35-year-old Juli, always heaves a sigh. Selling garments, he makes only a small daily profit of about Rp25,000, just enough to feed his wife and child, now a junior high school student. Not a cent will remain of this sum. In fact, he still has to pay the monthly electricity bill and kiosk rent. Big losses are looming. He will soon lose his ca

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