Downtown Padang

As the afternoon call to prayer filled the air, I sat drinking a Coca Cola in a busy back alley. In the mango tree above a man threw fresh mango's to a women below. When her hands were full of mango's the women took to dodging the mango's, which splattered at her feet.

Walking round the roundabout, I saw an infant playing in the gutter. A policeman caught sight of the little girl and called out to her mother to fetch her from the street. With a vacant gaze the mother remained sitting on the sidewalk, while the policeman pulled the child from the street.