Devi Asmarani, Solo – An Osama bin Laden picture adorns the wall calendar at the infirmary of the Al-Mukmin Pesantren, the Islamic boarding school which has acquired a reputation for being a militant breeding ground. It is a place where students and teachers alike profess their admiration for the man they call the Muslim "hero".
T-shirts with his pictures are favourite fashion items among the students, and everyone thinks he leads a brave campaign against the crusaders and the Zionists.
During Friday prayers at the mosque, his name and US President George W. Bush are mentioned in the same breath. But they pray for God's blessings for the former, and condemnation for the latter. Mr Bush's anti-terror campaign is seen here as being targeted towards Islam.
Among students, the latest fad is to carve the word "Israel" and "USA" on their slippers to symbolise their revulsion of the two countries they think most hostile towards the Muslims. "The Quran says that Christians and the Jews will not let us Muslims live peacefully until we follow their religions," said 19-year-old Abdul Mufi.
And he thinks that as part of the grand design to undermine Muslims, his teacher and Al-Mukmin founder Abu Bakar Bashir was wrongly accused of masterminding several bombings in the past two years.
Bashir, named as one of the leaders of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network, has been under police watch at the Muhammadiyah Hospital here for the past week after collapsing a day before he was named a suspect. The school has since deployed dozens of senior students to prevent him from being taken by the police.
They refuse to believe that their "fatherly" ustaz (religious teacher), who teaches Quranic Interpretation to final-year students, could inspire any terror attack. "Ustaz has been slandered, he did not mastermind any attack," said Abdul. Said 16-year old Retno Wulandari: "He is a peaceful, spiritual man."
In the 1980s, Bashir, who co-founded the school with the late Abdullah Sungkar in 1973, ran afoul of the Suharto regime with his radical Islamic interpretation. That led to his exile to Malaysia before he decided to return home three years ago.
But now that he is under local and international spotlight, locals are concerned his radical followers, a minority group in the mostly moderate Indonesia, are turning off visitors to the sultanate city. "Even I'm scared of them. They are fanatics," said one university student.
Squeezed in the middle of the residential area of Ngruki, the school is moulding young men and women into Muslim clerics who will struggle for the supremacy of the religion. The writing and calligraphies on the walls in classrooms and hallways call for Muslims to wage jihad or holy war.
The two-hectare compound is divided into women's and men's quarters. Anyone caught crossing over is punished. There are 1,100 male students and 900 female students living in the two dormitories.
Curriculum emphasis is heavy on maths and the sciences, in addition to the religious classes. And only Arabic and English are supposed to be spoken in the compound.
Mr Ibnu Annifah, the vice-assistant director, said: "We already speak Bahasa Indonesia, and we think we have to master English to follow the technology." By their second year here, most students can communicate fluently in Arabic, as almost all classes are taught in the language. Graduates have gone to study in various universities in the Middle East.
The students observe a regimented daily schedule that starts at 4 am with prayers and exercises. Music is forbidden here, and students found smoking and bringing in "un-Islamic reading material" will be punished. Rows of books in Arabic line the library, and the only papers available are the local Islamic publications and the Saudi-based Muslim World.
Said vice-director Wahyudin: "We want to create an environment that is conducive to apply what we teach, by limiting influence that can cause the students to commit sins."