Smiles amid the Suffering

SO many happenings in our country are needlessly tragic, but some can be hopeful and even make us laugh, as the following collection of photographs attest.

Sixty-year-old Iyok is not someone we are likely to meet at cemeteries, offering prayers for the dead, before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and the start of Idul Fitri.

At the public Kampung Kandang cemetery in the eastern part of Jakarta, he works at his dirty job of burying uniden

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