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slept anywhere, at friends houses + behind a theater where occasionally worked as a clown
in canning factory worked 3 shifts at a time until quit because of troubles w/ a new foreman
then period of extreme poverty till able to get a license + become a bajaj driver since fate better; bajaj owned by an ABRI captain + he pays rent
p 171 owner patient if he's sick + unable to drive for several days 
able to buy a gubuk when moved to K.S. in 1977 - cost 100,000 -- gubuk measures 4 x 6 M + divided into 3 rooms
uses public toilet + pump or borrows water from neighbor w/ a pump
hopes to send kids to school as far as ability takes them
for time being uses K.B. but may stop if fortunes improves

5 Azwan
unemployed 30-yr old man from W. Sumatra
better educ. than most w/ high school from Sum + 2 yrs law

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school on Java
tho grandparents wealthy w/ clove + nutmeg gardens, parents died when he was small
after high school went to Medan + worked a while in tailor shop, then became a bus conductor and gradually worked his way to Jakarta
sick w/ smallpox in S. Sam.
in Jak sold cigarettes + then taken on by a circus and trained as a trapeze artist
did this 4 yrs but gave up on eve of a trip to Philippines because relative in Jak. died
got a job at Taman Ria Nonas but kicked [[strikethrough]] on [[strikethrough]] out on a pretext because tried to form a union
married a girl who also worked at Taman Ria
next became a P.E. teacher (senam, pencak silat etc.) giving private classes _ later at schools - one of school gave him a 2-yr. scholarship to its law faculty but had to quit when scholarship ended
not clear why quit teaching senam
- was for while active on Yayasan, for (whl?) got 1500 Rp a day, but people