A yellow police line stretched in front of the gates of the Mandalika Hotel in Anyer, Banten Province. "It's been there since the arrest," said Rozi, a security guard at the hotel last week. On Thursday, two weeks ago, the Jakarta Police and the Depok Police's joint team ambushed a group of drug smugglers from Taiwan.

At around 3am, the police opened fire at a black Toyota Avanza driven by Chen Wei Cyuan and Liao Guan Yu. The driver went straight on