FOR three hours Romli Atmasasmita listened closely to the charges read out by the prosecutor. Now and again the former Director-General Legal Administration, Department of Justice & Human Rights, scribbled on a sheet. It was Romli’s first-day session as a defendant in the case of alleged corruption in a Corporate Identity Administration System (Sisminbakum) project at the South Jakarta court.

When presiding judge Syahrial Sidik asked if he und