FROM the edge of Jalan Raya Bekasi Timor in Jakarta, looms a grey building surrounded by 8-meter-high walls. The tops of the walls are crowned with heavy barbed wire, which add another 2 meters in height. Five 10-meter-high watchtowers, are found at each corner of the 3-hectare prison.

There are three more barriers at the jail. Within 3 meters of the outer walls is an 8-meter-tall steel fence. Beyond that, a concrete wall, also about 8 meters tall