THE two-story house in a housing complex in the Jurangmangu area of Tangerang, Banten, has been unoccupied for almost two weeks. The fence gate is fastened with a padlocked chain. The neighbors do not know where the family of Ongen Latuihamallo, the musician who occupied the house, now lives.

One afternoon two weeks ago, four police picked up Ongen’s wife, Etha Pattinasarany, their two daughters and a servant who works at the house. “His dog