THE body lay charred. The skin was blistered and peeled off here and there. Blood was flowing from the nose and mouth. The right arm was stiff in a raised position, as if protecting the face from something.

That was the condition of Marsidi’s lifeless body to those who found him. The owner of a small computer store in Jakarta’s Mangga Dua Shopping Center felt the icy fingertip touch of Death on September 13 when a bomb exploded in th