A Sad Sunday Story
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
A scavenger wandered around Jakarta, carrying his daughter's dead body, in search of a place to bury her. Another side to Jakarta's glitter.
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BETWEEN Tebet and Cikini are luxury apartments, shopping malls and hotels, not far from the garbage carts parked by scavengers under railroad bridges. Last Sunday was a sad day for Supriono, one of those scavengers. His youngest child had died of diarrhea, inside an old garbage cart.
"A Sad Sunday" is not the title of a television soap opera. Because it was not a television soap opera, few people paid any attention to Supriono, l
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