The earthquake that struck Yogyakarta's Bantul regency on May 27 rendered chaos upon many homes and families. It also shocked the economy of the area -- known as the center of cottage industries -- to a halt, writes the Jakarta Post, Features - November 12, 2006 at http://www.thejakartapost.com/.
Forwarded by Budhi Mulyawan 131106.

But it did not take the people of Bantul, who are generally said to be persevering and skillful, to rise out of the disaster's rubble and put their nose to the grindstone anew.

Only a few months following the quake, various cottage industries in the production, manufacturing and handicraft sectors had already resumed work.

Although cottage industry workers in Bantul earn an average wage of only Rp 10,000-15,000 a day, they were driven by an urgent need to show that "the Bantul people were no beggars" -- as they declared when recovery aid began to arrive in the regency.

The people of Bantul vowed, "Kapok ngemis": they would not beg, ever again.

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