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• Audio slide show: Ros, child railroad cart driver
  

  Call him Ros, the lorry driver. A lorry is a cart that is made from used logs and ball bearings. With a push, the cart rolls back-and-forth on a kilometer-long abandoned railway near Central Jakarta's train depot. Most lorry cart drivers in the area are adults. Ros is the eldest of three sons of Sudaryanto and Sri Daryani. His parents make a living from washing up used plastic cups and doing their neighbors’ laundries at their home in Da’o Atas slum area, just a couple kilometers from Kota Train Station and the train depot. Ros has two brothers. In the morning, the ninth-grader goes to SMPN 113 state junior high school near Kota station. In the afternoon, he pushes his lorry cart from train depot to Bandan train station, or helps his parents’ work at home. At night, he settles in with his books and homework.

• Audio slide show: Yosef: I am a heroin user, not a criminal
  

  Yosef, 36, has been a heroin addict since 1992. As a husband and a father of three children, Yosef said he had told his family about his addiction. While maintaining his heroin habit, he works as an unofficial parking and security guard in South Jakarta to justify his belief that his addiction does not do any harm to anyone but himself. He has created his own way of getting on in society. It is possible he may get arrested by police for violating the law, but there is a growing support, including from First Lady Kristiani Yudhoyono, that drug users should not be jailed.