Innocents Lost
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
FIGURES of children flying kites emerge from the thick smoke of burning plastic in West Jakarta’s suburb of Kota Bamboo Seletan. Amongst them, wearing faded Spiderman pajamas and shiny red shoes, 2-½-year-old Sahrta holds the hand of an outreach worker. He attempts to distract the girl from watching her parents prepare heroin just a few feet away.
“I’ve been doing heroin for more than 10 years,” says Fitri in her fluent English, “I wa
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