THE rather dilapidated wooden chair looked too small for Maharani Ananda Sujono. However, this 6-year-old was not disturbed at all. While sitting in a relaxed manner, she was absorbed in observing four sectors of irrigated rice field and the River Pesanggrahan from the upper floor of a wooden house in Meruyun subdistrict, Depok, West Java.

Six of her peers were equally absorbed. Some were sitting on chairs while the others were standing at th