THERE are no longer sarongs and slippers strewed around Merdeka Palace. Now, everything has returned to being formal and orderly as a presidential palace should be. Last Thursday, at exactly 15.40, the gates of the palace were slowly opened. Selawat badar (a form of religious chanting) echoed around. From inside the building, members of former president Abdurrahman Wahid’s entourage emerged one by one. Emotion overcame the thousands of peop