IF the Permata housing complex in Angke, West Jakarta is any guide, the narcotics threat has reached critical proportions. As night falls, every street turns into a market. Every day, the police patrol, every day there are arrests, but since the economic crisis, the marijuana trade has been on the increase.

The people behind the syndicates seem to have parceled out turfs and tasks. There are people who receive the supplies, wrap the drugs, guard