AINAL Mardiah seemed to enjoy her new job. She would carefully insert gold threads into the yarn spread on the simple wooden loom. Then she would swiftly pull a wooden rod to interweave the threads. Out of the 180-centimeter-long cloth, Mardiah had just completed 30 centimeters of fabric.

The 39-year-old woman had been doing the weaving job for a month, hence she was still unskilled. She used to peddle dry cake for a living. Then a month ago, she