IT was somewhere in the Central Kalimantan interior, June 9, 1992. That afternoon, a group of motorboats loaded with passengers dropped anchor at the village quay. Several armed soldiers jumped to a tiny jetty on the bank of the River Kapuas, a small tributary. The villagers crowded around the jetty. Soon, there was a man dressed smartly—in a light brown uniform with the insignia of a civil servant on his chest and bearing the symbol of