A PERMIT was lying on his desk. Garundono, head of the Pluit Environment Board, was surprised. In only three months, the fate of the greenbelt along the North Jakarta Pluit Reservoir has undergone two changes. Initially, there was a beautiful dream of building a restaurant and a driving range in locations that should have been a water-catchment area.

Before they were built, however, another letter followed, announcing that another shopping mall wa