PING! The BlackBerry Messenger alert sent sounded eight times on Democrat Party chief executive Syarief Hasan's phone at 6pm on Tuesday last week. Each "ping!" indicated a message from Muchayat, a candidate in the then upcoming election for the open Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) position. Muchayat wanted Syarief to immediately respond to the query he sent: "Members are puzzled that they have been referred to Agus Joko?"

Ahead of the voting, set to take