Proof's in the Free Pudding

AN ordinary citizen measures a politician according to his or her record in times of distress, when calamities strike, when lightning and thunder boom louder than empty rhetoric. Such was the instant logic of Kampung Pulo, Jatinegara residents, who, when floods hit Jakarta in early 2002, desperately needed aid. People frantically transferred belongings from homes to flood-free places. Emergency tents popped up on muddy roadsides. Rain-soaked

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