The action of the Indonesian police in arresting Abu Bakar Ba’asyir has drawn criticisms. After declaring him as a suspect in a recent spate of bombings and an alleged plot to assassinate President Megawati, the police on Monday last week took the caretaker of Al Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Solo, Central Java, to Jakarta, triggering a clash with the santris (students) of the Islamic boarding school. Ba’asyir was in bed in hospit