Imam Wahid Wahyudi should already have been in Aceh since last month. A business friend had invited him to visit. "But I haven't been able to leave because of the tobacco harvest," said Imam, Friday last week.

Imam lives in the East Java city of Jember, the nation's tobacco producing center. He is the operational director of Boss Image Nusantara (BIN) Cigar, an Indonesian company that produces Havana cigars. Once in a while he acts as salesman, like