A MOOD of joy pervaded the General Elections Commission (KPU) last Wednesday. The office, quiet for almost three years, was visited by over a dozen reporters. That morning, KPU member Mulyana W. Kusumah, who had just been released on parole and left prison, entered his office.

“You’ve gained weight,” office employees teased Mulyana, who arrived in a black jacket with a necktie, in the same familiar style he had used before being jailed. Th