THE garden of the Sukoharjo Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) in Central Java, was recently covered with skeletons. Of course they didn't show up by themselves but were placed there by gravediggers who felt cheated and brought them from the Kertasura graveyard. So what's the story behind the bones?

Apparently it all started with the local regency government's plan to build a bus terminal on the site of a graveyard. The community around