HAVING now been gazing out from behind the bars at Salemba Prison since November 30 last year, Sumantri feels somewhat abandoned by his bosses who previously had promised to protect him. Driven on by his intense disillusion, he now just has a single desire: to bring down whoever else was involved in the scandal over the import of 60,000 tons of rice from Vietnam that has now turned really sour.

During his 30-year career at the Directorate General