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The industry's foot soldiers were no more committed to garment manufacturing than they were to, say, construction work: Most families owned sewing machines simply to earn an income.
After a lynching in Cililitan, East Jakarta, a mob rampaged through a jail after police arrested some of their number. One police officer who did try to act was roughed up. "If we intervene, the mob turns on us too," he says.
I spent about four days in Bangka, travelling through the island working on a hunch that a great story was unravelling. Decentralization would become the persistent fraying of the seams for Indonesia, as local governments squandered budgets and communities fall behind in terms of health and education outcomes.
I can not be thankful enough for the experience that FEER gave me, and I hope the appreciation is mutual. The magazine let me traipse around Indonesia to report on the country's evolving relationship with conflict.
