THE majority can win easily enough, but it is just as easy for them to become compact, then smother. "The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom", Dr Stockmann says in An Enemy of the People, "is the compact majority".

It's no coincidence, I think, that Henrik Ibsen's work written in 1882 is being mounted by Actors Unlimited in Bandung, now the reformation of Indonesian politics has turned sour and people are discovering that the voice of the