WHEN news of Sheik Puji’s case became the subject of heated debate, Indonesia seemed to be reversing itself and going back into the last century. The handicrafts businessman and owner of the Miftahul Jannah Islamic Boarding School was finally arrested last Monday and charged under Law No. 23/2002 on the Protection of Children.

Pujiono Chayo Widianto, 43, who has admitted to marrying Lutfiana Ulfa, 12, gave a number of excuses, none of which wer