LIFE is indeed unpredictable. A case in point is the experience of 46-year-old Anton Apriyanto. In October 2004, this professor of the Post-Graduate Food Sciences Program at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), was approached by a friend, Dr. Ahmad. Ahmad, as it turned out had been assigned by a Justice & Prosperity Party (PKS) high official to seek candidates for the positions of Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Research & Technology