THE cemetery in the village of Nglundo in the East Java district of Nganjuk is under flood water. The dykes that separate the area from the surrounding rice fields are nowhere to be seen. Everything is submerged, except for one site—Marsinah's grave, which seems to resist the encroaching water.

The tombstone has long lost its aquamarine color with time and the iron enclosure is rusting. At one end of the grave flies a tattered Red-a