It was noisy at the Ansor offices on Jalan Darmo Raya in Surabaya. The time was about midnight and some of the young guns of the Nahdlatul Ulama ‘youth movement’ were singing passionately and rapping the floor hard. Others were tinkering with the martial poem of Ansor’s ‘all purpose front’, the paramilitaries known as Banser. It took a while but then they cried with joy. They had come up with a new, more heroic set o