NEAR the top of the escalator on the second floor of the Nusantara II Building, in the House of Representatives (DPR) complex in South Jakarta, Ade Daud Iswandi Nasution, 58, encountered three men in dark, short-sleeved dress jackets. They then greeted this treasurer of the Reform Star Party. Then, while taking the escalator down, they talked.

On the ground floor, the discussion suddenly heated up. From behind, a man suddenly forced his way throug