Second Front
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
Many Indonesian soldiers are performing dubious off-duty jobs to make up for their low salaries. Commanders find it hard to prohibit such moonlighting.
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In the red-light district of Gunung Anta, along the elevated railway line in Kebon Pala, Jatinegara, East Jakarta, at midnight one day last week, First Private Marjo was on duty as usual. He was not defending the nation, alas, but collecting “room and security fees” from street prostitutes working the area. “It’s my off-duty job,” said Marjo, which is not his real name.
Marjo, 26, a member of an army engineering unit,
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