After sitting in the waiting area of Terminal 2D at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten, for just half an hour, seven police officers and three immigration officials approached Ratna Sarumpaet last Thursday night. One of them showed a travel ban issued by the Directorate-General of Immigration upon the request of the Jakarta Police Department to this social activist and theatre performer.

Ratna did not resist when officials took her to