AN ecstasy pill sent him to prison for four years. Dira (not his real name) vividly recalls the event that landed him at Tangerang’s boys’ penitentiary in Banten. Two years earlier, accompanied by friends, he celebrated New Year 2007 on Bidadari island off the coast of Jakarta.

It was on that New Year’s Eve celebration that his friend offered him a pink ecstasy pill. “I was asked to try it,” said the 18-year-old boy to Tempo at the Tan