Hadi Surya turned around suddenly and left Ajengan Masduki who was there in front of him. He ran, started his motorcycle, and raced out of the village. He still carried the letter in the white envelope which he had promised to deliver to the Imam of Darul Islam. “I just didn’t have the heart after seeing him,” explained Hadi, 47, when Tempo met him at his home in Bandung three weeks ago.

Hadi still remembers that February 1995, when he w