ON Monday morning, August 30, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees crowded a meeting room on the 15th floor of their headquarters, the Merah Putih Building in South Jakarta. Four KPK leaders, along with preliminary investigators, investigators, prosecutors and other officials were conducting a preliminary hearing for a bribery case implicating Golkar Party General Chairman Azis Syamsuddin.

The hearing concluded that Azis was to be n