Atrip to Mecca in early February had an urgent undertone for Garibaldi 'Boy' Thohir and Cahyono Seto. As the two men stood with a pair of their colleagues before the sacred Ka'bah, their minds could not escape the problems that awaited them thousands of kilometers away in Banyuwangi, East Java.

In recent years, Boy Thohir and Cahyono have been locked in a dispute with Intrepid Mines, an Australian mining company. "I prayed for there to be a way out