In Medan, the sun shines fiercely. With sweat pouring from his sturdy body, Langkir Usman heaves earth with a shovel. Not many people would suspect that this fellow also carries a burdensome past.

Langkir, a farmer, recently fled the terrorist threat posed by some elements of the Free Aceh Movement—GAM. As an ethnic Javanese and former member of an Indonesian army-sponsored civil resistance organization, his life was at risk. He has re