JUSTICE Maruarar Siahaan tripped over his words when the lights in the courtroom of the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, suddenly went out last Tuesday. For more than half an hour he had been reading the courts decision on the request for a judicial review from Maj. Gen. (ret) Ferry Tinggogoy on Law No. 32/2004 on Regional Governments.

In fact, only two more pages remained to be read concerning the final considerations of the decision when the lig