THE stack of documents contains lists of eye-popping figures. The total amount of funds in circulation come to about Rp245 billion. There are various expenses: loans for the staff’s health costs, operational vehicle repair costs, and the list goes on. Different types of receipts are written in Arabic. Such were the financial records of the Ma’had Al-Zaytun school in 2001.

Incomes are also precisely recorded: deposits made to bank accounts i