As darkness falls over the affluent Pantai Indah Kapuk suburb of north Jakarta, young ethnic Chinese Indonesian businessmen rise from their dinner tables, gather sticks and batons, and set off on night patrol.
Ten months have passed since the May anti-Chinese riots across Indonesia. The gang rapes, looting, burnings and violent attacks have long stopped, but the country's eight-million-strong ethnic Chinese community remains traumatised.
Many cannot rest easy in their beds.
Flights out of the country are already heavily booked ahead of the general elections in June when further disturbances are feared.
Most middle-class ethnic Chinese women in Jakarta already dare not go out without Mace spray or electric prods in their handbags to fend off would-be attackers, especially after dark.
And whenever possible they travel in groups, or stay at home. 'I know a few women who even carry handguns in their bags,' says Rita Serena Kalibonso, executive director of Mitra Perempuan, a foundation for the elimination of violence against women.
The poor cannot afford such luxuries. Only the relatively wealthy can hop on a plane.
