BORN of military parentage, Dendy Darman often felt repressed. His soul cried out to be released. In my childhood, I depended entirely on my parents, said this 33-year-old from Kendari, Sulawesi. Nothing that he ever did during his youth ever satisfied this father of one child. We had to look at imported products just to listen to good music, he said.

This went until he entered the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology in 1994, when his lif