Highway Robbery

January 28, 2003

Jeremy Allan*

 

AFTER two months of impeccable behavior, the Kuta Beach police have reverted to old habits. In the weeks following the Bali bombing, the local police, like other Balinese, treated those foreigners who remained on the island as honored guests. Even such a blatant flaunting of regulations as speeding down a main street on a motorcycle without wearing a helmet would draw only a disapproving glance or polite admonishment

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