DAVID Maruhum Lumbantobing has unwittingly become well-known. A fortnight ago, at the Juanda Airport waiting room, Surabaya, a cleaning service worker suddenly congratulated him. “Thank you, sir. I also have a four-year-old kid,” he said, as quoted by David to Tempo last week.

This is an auspicious sign of David’s victory a few days earlier in the court battle over the formula milk and baby foods case contaminated with enterobacter sakaza