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Twilight in Djakarta
Written by Bill Dalton, originally published in Bali Advertiser
Jul 01, 2014
Twilight in Djakarta
Written by Bill Dalton, originally published in Bali Advertiser
Jul 01, 2014
Twilight in Jakarta is a vivid and compassionate dissection of the social and political life of Jakarta in the formative years after independence. This important book reveals the dark currents of poverty, corruption and vice which course just beneath the surface of one of the great cities of the Third World, where the lives of intellectuals, poets, essayists, sociologists, swaggering businessman and labor leaders are enmeshed with thugs, pickpockets, petty thieves, loan sharks, coolies and street people who live in grinding abysmal poverty.
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