AFTER not hearing from him for almost two years, a letter arrived from Gun Gun Gunawan bearing the letterhead of the Abu Bakar Islamic University, in Karachi. His mother, Eni Maryani, 63, was overjoyed. However, she arrived at another conclusion: her eighth child was no longer staying with his older brother—Encep Nurjaman alias Hambali—selling fabric in Malaysia.

Her elation has passed. Now the thoughts of this ailing, elderly wo