Tasty freshwater fish and vegetables are no longer for sale in the Mare Lake market. Located on the edge of the Kapuas River, this used to be a thriving center of trade in Kuala Kapuas in Central Kalimantan. Not any more.

The youths and young girls who every evening used to sit out to enjoy the riverside breeze are staying indoors these days. The so-called Town of Water became a town of blood last week. And the wooden houses burned to a cinder m