A PACK of would-be beggars appeared on the street. They were dressed in jeans, T-shirts, and shiny shoes. Some wore suit jackets of various colors. They held out coconut shells as drivers passed on Jl. Adi Sucipto, the main road in Solo, Central Java, on Wednesday last week.

Some of the drivers dropped coins and bills into the coconut shells. After an hour, these beggarsactually activists from the Indonesian Muslim Students Action Frontbrought wh