Rock musician Dono may be handy with a ceremonial sword, but he is no looter.
'I don't sympathise with the rioters and looters,' the long-haired 30-year-old said as he stood at the gate of his military father's house wielding a metre-long sword and scabbard of bull's hair and shark's teeth.
'I haven't had to use it yet . . . people just look at this and they are scared.' As he spoke, hundreds of rioters and looters sped past with booty from a supermarket on the edge of an area of military housing in East Jakarta.
Gunfire popped across trees a few hundred metres away as police drove back crowds still eager for trouble after a night-time of violence.
Like many military families and other middle class elites, Dono said he believed in peaceful efforts to bring about change.
'Our problem is simple. We have had the same president for 32 years. My goal is reform, especially with regard to the law.
