UNDER a big tree, the two small boys faced off with hands in boxing gloves. One was 13 years old, tall, lean and towering. The boy in front of him was 11 years old, sturdy and athletic with eyes like an eagle.

“I challenged him to a three-round boxing match,” said Eko Muhatma Kartodirdjo, the older boy. He was boxing Prabowo Subianto, Sumitro’s third child, today a retired three-star general and vice-presidential nominee from the Indonesia