JAKARTA - He thought he was safe in the quietness of the boarding terminal at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, but there it was, the noise that troubled him for much of his three-day work trip to Jakarta.
Only this time, the “clack-clack” sound that the Singaporean media professional heard was not from street vendors or children playing with the latto-latto, a toy clacker which has reached near-ubiquitous status in parts of Indonesia, but from a smartphone.
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