THE house was in ruins; the porch had collapsed, the supports broken. The windows were shattered and walls damaged. The gaping windows were boarded up. Nothing is left inside. A police line still runs around the house.

"That building is still as it was after the riot," said First Insp. Hasanudin, former head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Cikeusik Police in Pandeglang, Banten, last Monday.

On Sunday, 6 February, over a thousand people atta