CAKES in a green box arrived at the office of House of Representatives (DPR) Budget Committee Chairman Emir Moeis, on the sixth floor of the Nusantara I Building. A courier had delivered it at the request of Olly Dondo Kambey, deputy head of the DPR Finance Commission, a fellow member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

Not long afterwards, Olly appeared. “That is for breaking the fast,” he said. The recipient smiled and