Rather, it is the story of one man's struggle against homelessness (why doesn't the state do more to help the working poor?).

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Many gypsies (or Roma, as some prefer to be called) do indeed struggle to meet the rent.

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State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi, in charge of reforming the state-owned sector, is a former banker who joined Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the early 1990s, when it was hardly politically expedient to do so.

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