Raid on Indonesian food stall stokes fears of fundamentalism
Serang, Indonesia
LYING on the floor against a gym bag full of clothes in a two-room shack in the West Java town of Serang, Saeni tried to explain how her life had been turned upside down, but she fainted before she could finish.
Last month, Saeni, 53, a mother of four, was cooking in her tiny open-air food stall in preparation for customers about to break fast during the holy month of Ramadan, when local public order officers entered. They angrily accused her of violating a local bylaw against serving meals during the day and confiscated all her food.
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