Worried about the Future

AFTER two years of living in shelters at the Baru Porong market in Sidoarjo, East Java, 42-year-old Suratin eventually decided to leave. He has now opened a coffee shop at a construction project near his home in Kedungsolo village, Porong. The capital for his new enterprise was obtained from part of the compensation from PT Lapindo. The 20 percent compensation paid by the company so far was used to buy a reserved plot of land valued at Rp17 milli

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