Sharing their home with a predator


Beware: A crocodile warning sign is displayed by the river in Budong-Budong. (Right) Crocodile handler Rusli looking for the creatures in the river. — AP

Nearly seven months after a crocodile attack almost took her life, Munirpa walked to the estuary outside her home with her husband and her children, ready to brave a re-enactment.

Munirpa, who like many Indonesians only uses one name, recounted how one early morning in August, she threw her household garbage into a creek about 50m away from her house, as she normally would.

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