The truck stood idle in front of a warehouse at the end of Jalan Sawah Besar in Kaligawe, Semarang, Central Java. All activities there had ground to a halt following last week's arrest of the building's owner, Siti Wororini. Prior to that, a neighbor said, the place was alive with activity, with the coming and going of dozens of trucks carrying fuel oil.

The police had been busy coming by the warehouse. Police cars often drove back and forth," anothe