IN mid-April, a staff member from the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives (DPR) dropped into the offices of Permadi, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle faction on the eighth floor of the Nusantara Building in Senayan. Without much fuss, he placed a plain white envelope on the desk. Whats this? asked Permadi without touching it. Not receiving a satisfactory response, Permadi retorted sharply, take it away