THE damp air in the 84-square-meter house now feels a little warmer. A laptop computer sits on a table in the visitors’ room. “I was initially refused a credit application for the laptop,” said Dyah Sujirah at her home in Jalan Juanda, Jebres, Surakarta, Central Java, on Friday last week. The 43-year-old, who is usually called Sipon, was unable to produce her husband’s identification card.

But Sipon did not give up that easily. The wife