A half-man, half-beast, dubbed the "kolor ijo" or "green underpants", has been blamed for stalking Jakarta's outskirts, attacking people with its claws and raping lone women. Terrified residents set up special kolor ijo patrol squads, while others draped their homes in magic talismans to ward off the creature. The whole city has been transfixed by the rampage, with television crews and newspapers joining the hunt, uncovering a well-travelled beast that roamed from the city's main airport in the north-west to Bogor in the south, a distance of around 80 kilometres. And to make matters worse, the beast also seemed unencumbered...
