IT was still before sunrise, but activities had already started at the Public Administration Institute (STPDN) at Jatinangor in Sumedang, West Java. In the early morning of last Wednesday, with the sky still dark, all the praja—as students there are called—were already awake. They "drilled", then did their morning run and gymnastics together on the 280-hectare campus. Afterwards they went back to their respective "barracks", took a bat