The cells at the Attorney General's Office last week received a most special guest. For the first time in Indonesian history, a speaker of the legislature and the head of the nation's second largest party was cooped up there on Thursday night last week. Facing this bitter reality, the great man resigned himself to his fate.

"This is the risk as a politician," he said.

He is Akbar Tandjung, chairman of the Golkar Party, who a month a