A NUMBER of workers in the Media Group knew one man as an air-conditioning technician. He would come if there was a problem with the air-conditioning in a building in the area of Kedoya, West Jakarta. This man in his mid-40s was known as Asiong.

His full name is Alfian Sanjaya, and he was born and raised in Jambi. “I’m a local boy who only graduated from junior high school,” he said. As it turns out, Asiong was no ordinary small-town resid