Hundreds of farmers in the village of Cimacan in the West Java district of Cianjur have taken the law into their own hands. After years of injustice at the hands of corrupt officials working in collusion with greedy developers, the villagers earlier this month marched to a golfing resort on land forcibly taken a decade ago by the developer from illiterate farm families in the area.

Armed with diggers and other implements, the farmers broke thr