What would have happened if the cleric who led that group had been moderate instead? Three days after the church attacks, the authorities had constructed a plywood wall to block Mr. Oepriarto’s house from view. Mr. Oepriarto’s neighbor, Wery Tri Kusuma, said his wife’s last interaction with Ms. Kuswati, the mother, came just one day before the family blew itself up. Ms. Kuswati came over to tell Mr. Kusuma’s wife that she didn’t need to knock if she felt like picking some sour star fruit that grew from a tree on Mr. Oepriarto’s land. “It was like she knew what was going to happen, and she was giving us permission to take what we liked after they were gone,” Mr. Kusuma said.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2018 03:56 UTC