UMI Solehah, owner of the Helmy kiosk at Surabaya's Wonokromo Market had no time to remove the goods from the three stalls of her kiosk when the bulldozer came. The 36-year-old could only blink several times when the machines of mass destruction pulverized her three trading sites.

Umi could only shudder and wave helplessly to the bulldozer driver. Then her arms went limp and her head hung low. Fellow traders rushed to support her. Her m