AS a premeditated and organized crime, child kidnapping should be treated with extra vigilance. Ignoring it would be like planting rice in fire: eventually it will lead to a blaze difficult to extinguish.

The tragedy of Jefri Adriansyah, who was kidnapped at the end of May, and found murdered at the beginning of this month, is an example of a problem we must think seriously about. The 9-year-old was taken for a ransom of Rp35 million. When his p