After being out of the news for some time, Andi Muhammad Ghalib is back on the scene, and a subject of much discussion. Last Tuesday, January 16, the former attorney general launched his biography, Deflecting the Storm: Enforcing Legal Supremacy. More than 1,000 people were in attendance at the opulent ceremony at the Lagoon Tower Ballroom at Jakarta’s Hilton Hotel.

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