AN overpass in the vicinity of the Waru Roundabout, en route to Surabaya, East Java, stands in an unfinished condition. The main structure is completed, but there are only mounds of dirt where the road should be. Weeds grow wild everywhere.

Construction on this bridge began eight years ago, on grounds belonging to the Brawijaya 5th Regional Military Command (Kodam). This is where construction on a 26-kilometer stretch of the Simpang Susun Waru-Ta