THE family of the president is the safest protection for a businessman in a country that still trades on family ties. And this is the card that is very cunningly being played by Sjamsul Nursalim. Born in Lampung 60 years ago, this big fish businessman really knows how to exploit the Jakarta elite in order to safeguard his octopus-like business.

Its not really strange that, despite the changes in the Indonesian government, the long arm of the law h