PIECES of broken glass were strewn about in the special showroom for gold items in Yogyakarta’s Sonobudoyo Museum, Wednesday morning two weeks ago. In the upper part of the eastern walls of the gold room, the metal bars and glass panes protecting one of the three windows were seriously damaged, apparently having been broken into.

This condition shocked Bambang, the museum janitor. He was even more shocked when he discovered that several vitrin