THE unwanted visitors finally came. At dusk they opened the door to room number 7 on the third floor of the Catur Prasetya Building, Soekanto Police Hospital, in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta. As if he already knew the visitors’ purpose, the occupant of the room quickly packed his things.

After a month of lying there under doctors’ care following a heart attack, the man had still not fully recovered. But police were in no mood to bargain