Forced to Confess

When the police took him, he did not resist. The family picked up his lifeless body, beaten black and blue.

February 27, 2007

IN the sitting room of his run-down house in Gang Berdikari, Jalan Kapuk Raya, West Jakarta, Nurhadi thoroughly examined his job application file. Its complete, he told Bontot, his uncle. Besides his vocational SMK 56-North Jakarta high school diploma, A certificate of good conduct from the Cengkareng Police was included, said Bontot.

On Monday morning, January 8, the youngest of five siblings left home with a happy face. The mechanical graduate s

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