Between Knees and Navel

AN assortment of Muslim clothing was stacked neatly behind the display window of Tata Mode, a garment store on Jalan Darussalam in Lhokseumawe. Tempo was there some weeks ago. A brown-skinned man popped his head from behind a pile of fabric. His beard was graying. Marwan Yahya—as the man is named—is the store’s proprietor. He invited Tempo to look around his shop. Just two weeks ago the 47-year-old man had switched professions t

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