Station Life

THE economy class electric train (KRL) stopped at lane 2 of Bekasi Station, right as the summons for the Islamic sunset ritual prayer reverberated in the sky. The pale-yellow railway coaches suddenly let loose thousands of passengers. The withered faces of the train commuters met with the tired whine of the old train plying the Jakarta-Bekasi route. A passenger, lets just call her Sri, moved indolently. She had just shopped at the Tanah Abang Mar

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