THE third floor of the MPR Building was awash with sunlight, yet the security guard at the door nodded in sleepiness as he sat guarding the closed door, number 301. In fact it was locked from the inside, where DPR Speaker Akbar Tandjung, who is also Golkar Party Chairman, was busy at work.

He seems to be increasingly preoccupied, as a result of the opposition over the expulsion of Fahmi Idris and his friends. One form of opposition came fro