Helping One Another

The Kipas Foundation assists ex-prisoners in Bengkulu Province to re-enter society with job training, counseling and start-up funds. As many as 300 former convicts now run their own businesses.

THE din of the welding machine is earsplitting in the tiny, five-square-meter workshop in Jalan RE Martadinata, Pagar Dewa village, Bengkulu. Sparks fly as Lukman welds iron bars together to make a trellis with a flower motif. When Tempo