Cement Bag Fashion

Cement sacks are hardly inspiring, but a group of Indonesian women are turning the bags into fashionable handbags and mats to help eke out a living. Twice a week, 15 women from Penjaringan, north Jakarta, scour the construction sites in their slum for the paper sacks. The women, most of them married to fisherman, rent a small house which they use as a workshop. They do not coat or paint the cement bags, giving the finished product an unusual look.