GENERAL Elections Commission (KPU) Chief Arief Budiman’s diary is a mess. On Wednesday last week, he was supposed to continue with his validation report on the 2019 general and presidential elections’ campaign funding at his office in Jalan Imam Bonjol in central Jakarta.

Shortly after 9:00 p.m that night, though, something else caught the attention of Arief and the six other commissioners: rumors abounded about seven containers of