In a number of rooms measuring just 3 x 3 square meters sleep 40 young men. The barracks that houses those quarters once was home to lumberjacks of PT Hanurata, a forest concessionaire in Jayapura, Irian Jaya. Judging by the physique of the men, you’d think them security personnel of the timber company. But you’d be wrong.

They’re members of Kopassus, the elite force of the Indonesian Army—part of a 360-strong unit sent