FERDINAND Nainggolan sang Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up with such feeling. His eyes dropped, his left hand was over his heart. Applause filled the air when he hit the high note successfully at the end of the song. The Deputy State Minister for SOEs for Logistic Affairs merely grinned. “Happy birthday, Pak Laksamana,” he said in passing.

That night there were hardly any stars in the sky. In the back yard of his official residenc