TOGETHER with two subordinates, Police Adjutant Commissioner Mikael Parlindungan Sitanggang made his way into the An-Nur Mosque on Jalan Bubutan 2 in Surabaya on Monday last week. The chief of the Bubutan Police Sector was on a special mission: to check that the mosque, the center of Ahmadi activities in East Java, had been cleared of all Ahmadiyah attributes and symbols.

But what Sitanggang saw was different from what he had been hoping to see.