A FLURRY of messages was sent right after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) indicted Police Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan-then a candidate to become the next national police chief-for bribery on January 13 of this year. This conversation involved two people said to be politicians of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Hasto Kristiyanto and Arteria Dahlan.

In a transcript of a conversation Tempo obtained from law enforcement