THE ringing of his telephone in the small hours last Wednesday woke Syarif Hidayatullah from a deep sleep. Bleary-eyed the Citeureup, Bogor, resident lifted the receiver. The information conveyed by the voice on the other end of the line startled him: his second son, Wahyu Hidayat, 20, was being treated at the Al-Islam Hospital, in Sumedang, West Java.

Five minutes later, when he was getting ready to depart to visit his ill son, the telepho