The illegal drugs market in Jakartas Kampung Ambon seems to be a permanent fixture. People living in the Permata housing complex in West Jakarta appear to enjoy the freedom of living by their own set of laws. The security forces and the National Narcotics Agency seem unable to touch the area known as the drug-dealing paradise, and which is open 24 hours a day.

The police seem impotent. After repeated raids, the neighborhood populated by an ethnic