WITH curly hair and dark skin, the man lay on a gurney in the Sukanto Police Hospital, East Jakarta. An intravenous needle was inserted into his left arm while his right hand held the intravenous bottle. Two nurses pushed his gurney into the operating theater.

His name is Jube Patrick T.N., a Cameroon national. Last Thursday, doctors removed a bullet from his right thigh. Patrick had been involved in a shootout with six police officers from the Me