Indonesia reeling from US financial crisis 09 October 2008

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Indonesian stocks have been hit the hardest in Asia with trading halted since Wednesday, following the sell-off on Wall Street.

Declining demand from the US, its second-biggest export market, is threatening to leave hundreds of thousands of Indonesians without jobs.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen shows just how susceptible Indonesia's economy is to a financial crisis on the other side of the planet.