Arifin Panigoro has made himself the enemy of all four presidents Indonesia has had. But his origins are humble and only relatively recently has he become a major player in Indonesian politics.

Way back in the mid-1960s, in his early twenties, Arifin joined the `Forces of 66' who opposed founding president Sukarno at his worst hour. But in those days he was a minor figure, insignificant on the national stage.

Not so in 1998, when he fell fou