ASRIL Sultan Marajo is now free from terror. His wife is no longer fretting about the tax bills that used to arrive at their home quarterly. Now I feel relieved, the terror is over, said the journalist of Suara Merdeka. The terror Asril meant took the form of bills from the tax office he had periodically received for years.

The bill terror began when Asril installed a telephone in his house in the Jetis area of Yogyakarta in 1987. One of the requi