THE legal investigation into the hot-mud disaster in Sidoarjo is moving like a flat iron: back and forth. East Java regional police have twice handed the dossier over to the chief public prosecutor and twice also the office has returned it to the police. “There are many formal and material requirements that are incomplete,” said the head of the East Java Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, Marwan Effendi.

Marwan cites several deficiencies, f