HALF an hour before the interview, Arlindo Fransisco Marçal was really extremely angry with Tempo. “You have totally ignored the principle of presumed innocence,” said this Timor Leste Ambassador to Indonesia for the 2003-2006 period at his two-floor home, around 200 meters from United Nations headquarters in Dili, at the end of March this year.

Marçal, 48, pointed at the report in the Koran Tempo newspaper and the headlines of several lo