THE afternoon sun was extremely hot but Muhammad Hud Alqadrei kept walking by the Tanjung Ru quay. At Padang village, the Maya Karimata Islands, North Kayong, a regency in West Kalimantan province, Muhammad is known as a local leading youth figure.

Not far from the spot a mother and her daughter sat waiting in a hut. She was gasping for breath. The girl would occasionally wipe the sweat from her mother's brow. On that particular day, Muhammad was