AHMAD Ghofar Ismail, 56, the ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology) graduate who heads the Suramadu Bridge Construction Project, patiently responded to the barrage of questions from reporters last Tuesday, at the Surabaya office of stateowned PT Jasa Marga.

The questions focused mostly on the problem of theft occurring on the newly launched bridge linking the islands of Java and Madura. Along the bridge, screws, nuts and bolts, and even some