"EAT your gado-gado first, then interview me," Wiranto urged the TEMPO reporter. It came, he said, from a well-known seller at Kebon Kacang who began his business in the 1930s. "So don't doubt his experience and expertise," he said.

Experience and expertise, in fact, seem to be Wiranto's buzz words these days. It's what he carries as a retired general when he comes down the mountain. He cannot bear to see his Indonesia, whom