Between Knees and Navel
The gas, pulp, and fertilizer industries are in bad shape. Thousands of workers are unemployed, and thousands more are on the verge of losing their jobs.
January 11, 2005
AN assortment of Muslim clothing was stacked neatly behind the display window of Tata Mode, a garment store on Jalan Darussalam in Lhokseumawe. Tempo was there some weeks ago. A brown-skinned man popped his head from behind a pile of fabric. His beard was graying. Marwan Yahya—as the man is named—is the store’s proprietor. He invited Tempo to look around his shop. Just two weeks ago the 47-year-old man had switched professions t
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