THE meeting at Dapoer Restaurant in South Jakarta took place a year ago. But Indra Kusuma, a marketing staffer at PT Altelindo Karyamandiri, an information technology firm, still remembers it well. He arrived first that afternoon, followed by Ciputra and a son of the owner of a leading publishing company. They chose the table on the right of the restaurant.

Eddy Sumarsono, a journalist known to be close to a number of prosecutors, arrived later.