Street Credibility
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
NINETEEN
Text by: Irfan Kortschak
Publisher: Mercy Corps 2008
IT would take a remarkably dumb visitor to Indonesian cities not to notice hawkers of all sorts, buskers, roadside kiosk holders, scavengers, ‘ojek’ motorcycle-taxi drivers, sex workers and others that go to make up what Australian author Irfan Kortschak here calls ‘the informal sector’. Many, if not most, are self-employed.
You encounter these ‘informalistas’ everywher
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