Slow Suicide
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Kampungbali is in the grips of a drugs crisis, and there appears to be no way out. The authorities are overwhelmed, and the residents either don’t care or have given up.
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A young man, just call him Harno, staggers along the road, his feet dragging. His clothes are unkempt, his face dirty, his eyes sunken, and he smells like a trash heap. In the end, he collapses in an alley in Kampungbali, Central Jakarta. He is shivering, even though it is the middle of the afternoon. He says something incoherent. Harno is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
Strangely, passers-by just ignore him. None of them are interes
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