THE name of the institution is quite impressive: the General Elections Monitoring Board (Bawaslu). It was established based on the General Elections Law, so it should really have considerable influence and authority.

Yet the Chairman of Bawaslu, Nur Hidayat Sardini, 40, says that like in soccer games, they only work on the lines. “People say our organization is the top referee, yet we are nothing like that,” said Hidayat, last Friday at hi