ON January 13, Silmy Karim was in his office absorbed in a race to familiarize himself with the ins and outs of the immigration system that had become his new universe. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Krakatau Steel was reassigned just nine days earlier as the new chief of the immigration directorate with the mandate to vamp up the agency.

Previously on September 9, in the meeting at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, apparently indignant Preside