AMID the noisy sounds of musical instruments, the 18 children hunched their shoulders to look like “tigers.” They thrust out their chests. Wearing a wrapped headdress and a charcoal moustache, they moved, stepping in a vicious manner. These scrawny kids, ranging in age from 4 to 10 from the villages around the Borobudur Temple, were acting as if they were hungry “thugs.”

About 60 people, children and adults from Gejayan village on the Me