Stuck in a Prison of Debt
Monday, January 29, 2018
Four large men stood guard in front of a shop-house in Jalan Mangga Besar II, Taman Sari, West Jakarta, on the first Friday of January. The brown sliding steel door behind them was only open a quarter of the way. Seven other men were present across from and next to that shop-house. They were alert whenever anyone stopped near there.
"They are the lodging guards," said Vanessa, not her real name, to Tempo, that night. Vanessa lives at the building to
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