FOR more than a week, lines of police blocked the gate to a small wooden warung (literally: stall) in Jalan Lagoa Kanal, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta. Warung Jamu Abah, as it is called, is only 10 square meters in size, and is now empty. Usually this warung is brightly lit-up because of the very special commodities on sale there.

The deaths of four men named Suwito, Jonikson, Parto and Roni three weeks ago created somewhat of a disaster here. Acco