A GOVERNOR complained. I happened to overhear him. And so I realized something odd had become routine in the governing of his city, as though the governor and his administration were straight out of a Kafka novel, as though Kafka were living not in Prague in the early 20th century, but in Jakarta, in the Gambir area perhaps, over the last four decades. But this story is not the product of some writer’s literary imagination: one day in the 1990s