BEING named an accomplice in the disappearance of Adelin Lis riles Yon Suhartyono, Governor of Tanjung Gusta Prison in Medan, North Sumatra. Yon was accused of releasing Adelin only hours after the Medan District Court acquitted the timber baron on November 5 of a charge of illegal logging while the police still wanted him to stay in detention for trial on another charge: money laundering.

What Yon had done was of little significance. He signed