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Indonesia tackles black market alcohol after many deaths

Indonesia tackles black market alcohol after many deaths

Police in Indonesia are taking aim at the illegal alcohol trade, after more than a hundred people died in one week from drinking bootleg liquor.

High taxes and restrictions on alcohol in Muslim-majority Indonesia has created a black market among the poor.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Cicalengka in West Java.

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