It was after midnight and Mohamad "Bob" Hasan had not gone to sleep in his cell. The place was Cipinang jail, where Bob's former golfing partner Suharto once dumped his political opponents. The time, Tuesday morning last week. Once revered, now reviled, the former minister sat in his cell, eating bread slowly. As if he knew something was about to happen. And it did.

Around 3:15am he received a visitor—Sugeng Handrijo, director of security and