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Onefourth of Jakarta's people are squatters, sticking close to shopping centers for the money income or close to rivers and ditches for cleaning and washing. Thousands sleep in the streets, known as orang gelandangan ('always on the move'). Jakarta is a city of a million villages. You can walk through the kampungs of Jakarta one after the other all day long (visit Kampung Arab, Krukut; and Kampung Portugis, Tugu), each with its own bridges, shops, schools, police, midwives, dukuns, customs, manners.