A MESSAGE he found written on palm leaves hundreds of years ago, has been a constant reference for Justice Andi Samsan Nganro. Judges, as is written on those leaves, may not make verdicts when they are in one of three states: angry, happy or hungry.

Andi has been loyal to this ancestral advice. "A judge who is feeling angry might punish the innocent, when he is happy he could release a guilty party or give lenient sentences to major criminals," said