Give Us This Day
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
When I returned to Indonesia in 2011 after an absence of several years, I was struck by many changes. Schoolgirls skirts had grown longer, the Islamic headscarf was more popular andurbanIndonesians were getting fatter.
It is bewildering to be confronted by overweight beggars. On a pedestrian overpass near my Central Jakarta apartment is a largewoman who spends nearly all day prostrate, requesting money buat makan[for food]." Twice a day she takes a
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