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Features|Poverty and Development

Jakarta’s Princess of the Dump

By 
Hassan Ghani
3 Jan 2018
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Jakarta, Indonesia – Around 3,000 families live around Bantar Gebang, Indonesia’s biggest dump, scavenging through other people’s waste for a living. One woman is trying to change that.

Filmmaker: Hassan Ghani

Assistant Producer: Surya Fachrizal

Executive Producer: Andrew Phillips

Source: Al Jazeera

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