Yesterday's Taxi Driver was...

Muskatim. A native Singaporean whose parents immigrated from Indonesia in the 1950's when immigration between Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia was more open. He went to Indonesia in June for the first time and visited his family's traditional village at the bottom of a volcano. We drove through Chinatown, where he said mostly tourists go. The best thing to buy there is souvenirs, and you should bargain or you'll get fleeced. You can also buy guns there, if you can get the permit. Permits are issued to rich people who need them for hunting trips to Indonesia and Malaysia, but are apparently also to people involved in certain industries such as running casinos...