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JAKARTA: On the sweltering streets of Jakarta, buskers often carry towering, hollow puppets and pass around a bucket for donations. Now, they fear becoming outlaws. City authorities say they will ...

JAKARTA: Under the blazing sun along the side of a road in a residential area of Central Jakarta, skilled craftsmen were hard at work to create giant puppets out of woven bamboo. Known as ondel-ondel, ...

In the sweltering streets of Jakarta, buskers carry towering, hollow puppets and pass around a bucket for donations. Now, they fear becoming outlaws. City authorities say they will crack down on use ...

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