HANDLING patients in the operation room in Mulia needs a skill and discipline of its own. Not all members of the Dani tribe—in Puncak Jaya district—speak Indonesian. So, Dr Yanuar and his colleagues normally assign nurses who are fluent Dani language speakers. Besides their paramedical aid, they also help doctors as interpreters of the Dani tongue into Indonesian and vice versa. “Some patients are hard to control. Actually during surgery th