MIRANDA Swaray Goeltom, 59, is carrying out a self-imposed ban on talking. Since the testimony of Agus Condro Prayitno, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) hit the media two weeks ago, the usually relaxed Miranda has been busy trying to evade the persistent press. Every time she is asked to make a comment, she just smiles and shakes her head. “I don’t know anything,” she is saying.

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