DURING his term of office as Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) between 1997 and 2003—when the Indonesian banking industry went through a crisis and had to be rescued by the government—Syahril Sabirin was twice involved in a lawsuit. Freed from his status as a suspect in the Bank Bali claims case in mid-2002, together with I Putu Gede Ary Suta, former Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) head, Syahril has become a suspect in a c