JAKARTA – For nearly three centuries, South-east Asia’s largest textile market has been standing strong in the heart of Jakarta, even if a little odd against a backdrop of towering offices, luxury hotels and malls.

       Known as Tanah Abang, it is a sprawling complex of lime-green and yellow low-rise buildings with some 13,000 stalls selling anything from clothing, shoes and bags, to fresh produce and sacred water from the Zamzam Well in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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