IF you need to get anything sorted out, just go through Mas Jazil, who acts as my deputy minister," Muhaimin Iskandar told us on one occasion at the office of the National Awakening Party (PKB) on Jalan Raden Saleh, Central Jakarta, two years ago. The PKB chairman had then just been appointed Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, at the office of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's cabinet.

Although it was said jokingly, the man whom Muhaimin had