Anger oozes from the poster. It shows the face of Tommy Suharto, former spoilt brat of the Suharto dynasty, now a wanted man on the run. "Fugitive from the People: Wanted Dead or Alive," it screams. The poster has been plastered all over Jakarta, in hundreds, on electric lamp poles and concrete walls.

But it was not the police or the state prosecutors who put them up—the two institutions that should now be getting serious about jailing this