Muhammad Adhiyat’s face turned cold and stiff as he observed a photographer tinkering with his camera flash after it failed in a photo session at Tempo’s office. A moment later, six-year-old Adhiyat-as the object in the photography session-began to pretend that he was acting. "I’m the devil’s child. If I say off, well, the lamp turns off," he said.

Adhiyat’s quip was responded to by laughter from a number of people present. Everyone bega