It was almost 2pm in one of the outer western suburbs of Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city of more than three million inhabitants. Merry, 50, a transwoman, had just alighted from a bemo, or public transport van, to head home after a day spent busking. Home is a 3 square metre (32 square ft) room she rents for just under US$25 a month.This is a marked improvement from the wooden shack she was living in a year ago. At US$2 a month to rent, it was a fraction of what she pays now but lacked…
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