A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the front yard of a house at Jalan Jenggala I, South Jakarta a decade ago. It was the start of 1998, the count-down to the end of the Suharto regime. Oil entrepreneur Arifin Panigoro lived in that house. But the motive of the intimidating Molotov cocktail was unclear. After all, Arifin was also close to student activists, frequently offering his home as their meeting place before they set out on their protests.