The Home
12 November 2018
The family home may be small, with a living room, bedroom and small kitchen, but as Resa says, every time she goes there, it is clean, and well managed.
They built the house themselves on land they rented from a private landlord. The rent is 2.4 million rupiah per year, or 200,000 per month (about $13). The area we were in today is rented off a boss and then subletted on to the people living there.
There seems to be a complex network of relationships about how land is rented, with some people renting from the person they work for and others from land which is rented as a whole then sub-letted in lots. Mursi's family have done the latter.
Mput and his father sleep in the living room, whilst Mursi and Sopi take the bedroom, where there is a double bed. Mursi is obviously a dedicated mother full of love, and her house is impeccably tidy, and cozy - you can feel the warmth between the family members as Mput rolls around on the mattresses on the living room like a monkey and Sopi sits smiling, pointing at me and reminding me that I'm bald.
Mursi was, however a bit embarrassed that the house isn't plumbed and she has to go elsewhere to get water. She has a bathroom but wasn't able to afford the pipes! One Resa's future planned projects is to help get better sanitation in places like these.
You can listen to the full interviews here: https://soundcloud.com/lifeatthelandfill
12 November 2018
The family home may be small, with a living room, bedroom and small kitchen, but as Resa says, every time she goes there, it is clean, and well managed.
They built the house themselves on land they rented from a private landlord. The rent is 2.4 million rupiah per year, or 200,000 per month (about $13). The area we were in today is rented off a boss and then subletted on to the people living there.
There seems to be a complex network of relationships about how land is rented, with some people renting from the person they work for and others from land which is rented as a whole then sub-letted in lots. Mursi's family have done the latter.
Mput and his father sleep in the living room, whilst Mursi and Sopi take the bedroom, where there is a double bed. Mursi is obviously a dedicated mother full of love, and her house is impeccably tidy, and cozy - you can feel the warmth between the family members as Mput rolls around on the mattresses on the living room like a monkey and Sopi sits smiling, pointing at me and reminding me that I'm bald.
Mursi was, however a bit embarrassed that the house isn't plumbed and she has to go elsewhere to get water. She has a bathroom but wasn't able to afford the pipes! One Resa's future planned projects is to help get better sanitation in places like these.
You can listen to the full interviews here: https://soundcloud.com/lifeatthelandfill