THE atmosphere last week at a holding cell of the headquarters of the Police Mobile Brigade Command was like a religious school. The three residents of the largest cell measuring 4 x 2 meters, were praying together. Three others, each in a separate, smaller cell, were reading the Qur’an.

This was the first day the detainees were held in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java. They are: Sarwo Edi Nugroho, 40, Kholis, 38, Sikas, 37, Amir Ahmadi, 32, Achma