Street scenes

I pass thesescenes everyday in the few blocks between home and school.

This is recycling Jakarta style. The man at the top is collecting
plastic bottles in the large bag. The man below, (you can just see his
feet sticking out) recycles and lives in his cart. This was taken in
the early morning and he was still sleeping. He is often in the same spot,
still napping in the late afternoon.

Many Muslim women wear the head scarf and conservative clothes.
The woman and child on the right hope to make money by hitching
a ride with someone who is in a car alone, so as to follow the 3 in1
rule for traffic on the main streets.She will jump into to someone's
car and travel to the end of the restricted area then hope to do the
same thing back.

The food vendors move their carts into position early in the morning
and are there until late at night.

This man is at the entrance to the Kampung (means village but has become synonymous for slum)
everyday. Some cars and lots of motorcycles take a shortcut through the Kampung and he helps
stop traffic to make it possible to turn. He then collects a few cents in his bucket from the drivers.