The outboard engine-equipped wooden boats stay moored at the pier all day. In the heat of the sun, a gentle breeze makes it easy for the fishermen to doze aboard their bobbing vessels. At Cilincing, North Jakarta, last week, piers that were usually scenes of frenetic activity, with incoming and outgoing fishing boats, were utterly quiet.

Sets of scales on the edge of the pier swayed idly back and forth. They gave no trace of having been us