ANTASARI Azhar was unable to hide his annoyance. The West Sumatra Chief State Prosecutor told reporters he had just announced that the corruption case involving Governor Zainal Bakar was to be postponed. "The attorney general, as the top state prosecutor, knows the specific grounds for the delay," said Antasari at the end of January.

He was right to be disappointed. The case his people had been working on for the last few months h