IN Lahti, Finland, last January, the temperature caused teeth to chatter and skin to wrinkle. Water froze. The region, 100 kilometers north of Helsinki, capital of Finland, was buried deep in snow.

Yet, in the dining room of a brightly lit house in the city, the cold had no impact. Bursts of laughter could be heard from inside. Indonesian Minister of Communications & Information, Sofyan Djalil, and his colleagues Minister of Justice & Human Rights