ON the face of it rugby is not a game that would seem likely to attract the interest of Indonesians. It can look like an excuse for a ‘brawlwithaball’, a hooly, a shindig, a stramash, whether in its union form (15aside) or in its league code (13aside).

It seems designed for big men, whether the tall or the ample where amplitude is not necessarily to do with muscle but may suggest a diet of unlean meat and beverages beginning with ‘b’. It