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For an interesting article on a recent mobilisation of several thousand of people from the Jakarta semi-proletarian poor (kaum miskin kota - KMK - urban poor), see the article by Zely Ariane

For further background material see the 1997 interview with Marlin on the politics of the mobilisation of the urban poor.

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