AT 7am, four plain-clothes police officers arrived in Dukuh Pondok, Bae village, Bae district, Kudus, Central Java. They immediately started staking out a house next to a sundries stall belonging to Aminah, a local resident.

One and a half hours later, a Kijang and a Nissan automobile, followed by four motorcycles, arrived and parked on a village street. Over a dozen passengers joined the four police officers who had arrived earlier, who then p