An Eye for an Eye

March 13, 2001


It was early dawn in Madura. But that Wednesday last week, Maiyah was already knocking frantically on Abdurrahman's door, the village chief of Paopale Laok in Sampang Regency, Madura. Holding her tears back, Maiyah shook violently. The middle-aged woman's face was white with fear. "My son-in-law is kidnapped," she said haltingly.

Her son-in-law was Mashur Uun, a native Dayak married to her daughter Marayu. The couple had just arrived in Sampa

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