A Sad Sunday Story
A scavenger wandered around Jakarta, carrying his daughter's dead body, in search of a place to bury her. Another side to Jakarta's glitter.
June 14, 2005
BETWEEN Tebet and Cikini are luxury apartments, shopping malls and hotels, not far from the garbage carts parked by scavengers under railroad bridges. Last Sunday was a sad day for Supriono, one of those scavengers. His youngest child had died of diarrhea, inside an old garbage cart.
"A Sad Sunday" is not the title of a television soap opera. Because it was not a television soap opera, few people paid any attention to Supriono, l
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