The Rise and Fall of Tenabang Toughs

Tanah Abang Market has always been a competing arena for the control of the security business. It has also produced some of Jakarta's toughest gangsters.

November 24, 2010

THE tattoo on his left arm is outmoded: an arrow piercing a heart with words "lonely heart" under it. For the past five years, 64-year-old Muhammad Yusuf Muhi, has lived alone in Cihideung Ilir, Bogor, West Java.

His fellow strongmen call him Bang Ucu. He has left his two wives and 16 children. The first wife lives in Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta and the second in Tebet, South Jakarta. "I am broken-hearted," he told Tempo, two weeks ago, inhaling de

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