Indonesia riots: Jakarta traders pick up the pieces as life slowly returns to normal

Jakarta shopkeeper Ismail ran his kiosk selling instant noodles, eggs and instant coffee for 20 years, until last week when rioters protesting Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s re-election looted it and burned it down.The kiosk was located on Jalan Wahid Hasyim, next to the Sabang police post, and in one of six hotspots in central and west Jakarta where hundreds, mostly young men, clashed with security forces. They hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and marbles, and set fires along the street…