SOME five years ago, bad fate brought Nuryanto to the Salemba Detention Center. In a mass fight, he was found guilty of possessing a big knife. Although he claimed it did not belong to him, however, Nur was difficult to miss.

He stayed in Salemba for four months. Not a long time to be in jail, indeed. There, though, he found a magnificent new world: Putaw, low-grade heroin.

The effect of putaw overcame the fear of risks as the consequences of