THREE luxury automobiles lay covered in dust: a Lamborghini valued at Rp3.8 billion, a Rp2-billion Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce Phantom priced at Rp6 billion. The three cars have been parked for weeks at the warehouse complex of the Tanjung Priok Port Authority, in North Jakarta. Nearby, lined up neatly in a row, were brand-new Isuzu Oz pickup trucks, ordered by the Indonesian Army to be used as ambulances.

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