SUWARNA Abdul Fatah responded to the verdict against him with a smile. As soon as the presiding judge of the Corruption Court, Gusrizal, struck his gavel, the suspended Governor of East Kalimantan was grinning at visitors to the trial session. There was no expression of shock, let alone sadness, on the face of this man.

It could be due to the light sentence passed on him. Previously, the prosecutor had demanded seven years in prison for Suwarna.