For the two days that the torture continued, the young man named Mr Mugiyanto believed that he was going to die. After snatching him from his lodging house, the men stripped him naked, beat him, blindfolded him and tied him to a bed. When they didn’t like his answers they gave him electric shocks — and in neighbouring cells, he could hear the screams of his friends.
Even back in 1998, in the Indonesia of the late dictator, Suharto, the abduction and torture of Mr Mugiyanto and the other young democratic activists was a scandal.
It contributed to the atmosphere of