THE aged woman wears slippers and a piece of sarong. A scarf covers her head. Her eyes are filled with tears, her wrinkles so deeply carved in the face, with a forced smile. She is standing right in front of the rubble of her home, reduced to only pillars and a messed-up sago-palm roof.

Ali, its very good. You should enlarge the photo, said Poriaman Sitangang, a senior photographer, to Ali Hasan, 37, the owner of the womans picture, last month.

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