THERE are few signs to show that the civil war in Syria which began in 2011, will end any time soon. On October 2014, when the conflict was at its peak, Djoko Harjanto, 59, was posted to the Syrian capital of Damascus as Indonesia's extraordinary and plenipotentiary envoy.

One of Djoko's assignments is to continue the repatriation of Indonesian citizens trapped in Syria's conflict. He travelled to Aleppo, which recently became the defining battle