THE plantation is located between two mountains: Papandayan and Ciparay. A group of farm workers, wearing hats and shabby clothes, were busily carrying plastic sacks. From the red soil covering 5 hectares, the smell of raw chilis and wet potatoes permeated the air. That afternoon, at the beginning of last August, it was harvest time at Simpang Cibuluh, Garut, West Java.

That plantation was once a place that the Bank Indonesia Employees Welfare Fou