Sister Brigitta, 56, is a prime mover of the Concerned Women’s Movement in the city of Ambon. The sister, together with her community, whose 62 members are Catholics, Protestants and Muslims, has tried her best to stop social conflict taking place in the province of Maluku. It is a noble, but fatally dangerous, undertaking.

It is no surprise that Sister Brigitta’s group has just been proclaimed a model of a basic community that peopl