They sit lined up in front of Surabaya's Tribata building, police headquarters for East Java. Dozens of familiar brands of luxury cars like Mercedes, Jaguar, Lexus, Chrysler, Smart and Toyota RAV 4. They are all brand new and worth up to Rp2 billion apiece.

Few Indonesian police officers could afford them. But of course they do not belong to the officers. The cars were confiscated from a warehouse in Gempol, Pandaan on Monday last week. It was