He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

(The Beatles)

WHEN the explosion's deafening noise shook the earth—concrete and glass dropping like leaves in the fall—Achmad Usman, 39, ran into the billowing white smoke smelling of ammunition in front of the Australian embassy, Jalan Rasuna Said, South Jakarta. That Thursday, September 9, the sounds of people whimpering could faintly be