It's not the end of Indonesia yet," President Megawati Sukarnoputri exclaimed a year ago. She was right. Amidst reports of fires in many areas, increasing thuggery, and bitter polemics over the role of the military as set out in Article 19 of the draft law on the Indonesian Military and other domestic issues, one encouraging development was reported from Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java.

In the past few weeks, Bandung caught p