IN Megamendung, Bogor, West Java, a hilly area where the National Police has its Detective and Criminal Training Center, the locals have noticed the arrival of a few expatriates in the neighborhood. They are American instructors, brought in to train the Anti-Terror Special Police Detachment 88. The first group to receive the six-month training consists of 24 midlevel officers.

The young officers, mostly selected from the elite Mobile Brigade (Brim