WHEN he stepped inside the Pendopo for the first time after he was sworn in as governor, Irwandi Yusuf seemed to have found his link to the past, It feels like Ive always been here, he said. Irwandi was taking possession of the Pendopothe official residence of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Governor in Banda Aceh, last February 8.

There have been other governors before him, but none attracted so much world attention as Irwandi Yusuf. Perhaps b