All he can do is cry. Oom Oman, 52, now spends most of his time at home. He is deeply depressed. He ignores his corn plants. Every time someone talks to him, the villager from Sirnarasa in South Sumedang, West Java just cries again.

Oom is one of the 40 West Java peasants who masqueraded as kiais (Islamic clerics) supposedly on behalf of West Java members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU mass Muslim group and President Abdurrahman Wahid's followers)