APPLAUSE broke out as the judge finished reading the verdict. Several spectators then ran out of the courtroom to stage a short drama. A man wearing a cap sat musing listlessly like the defendant while several other people read out a list of crimes that he had committed since he became president. The man in the cap was playing the role of former President Suharto.

This was how activists from the Try Suharto Peoples Movement (Gemas) greeted the ver