THE young man readied himself for a video camera recording. Dressed in a shirt and brown jacket, he was completely at ease facing the camera. The young man was Abdullah Sunata, a convicted terrorist released from jail seven months earlier.

Sunata was acting as a “witness” in a documentary shot at a Sundanese restaurant not far from the headquarters of the Mobile Police Brigade Command at Kelapa Dua in Depok in October 2009. The documentary w