I WAS in Jakarta recently watching how two competing companies make money, lots of it, from the poor, literally. In a city of 30 million people, many lived from hand to mouth. Money is tough to come by.
To survive a metropolis like Jakarta, one has to find every conceivable source of income. The city is clogged with traffic. The macet (“traffic jam”) is legendary.
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