Judge Andi Samsan Nganro looked uneasy. After taking only one puff on a cigarette, he hurried back into a room at the Meteorology & Geophysics Agency building in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. Andi joined Amiruddin Zakaria, I Ketut Gede, Pramodana K. Kusumah and Herri Swantoro, members of the panel of judges handling the Akbar Tandjung trial.

In the room, they conferred sternly. Papers passed back and forth between them, then a finger pointed at a