SUSANDHI looked cheerful. Cleanly shaved and clad in a bright-yellow shirt, he beamed with a constant smile on his face. Last Thursday, he chatted with several lawyers in the office of the National Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence in the Menteng area, Central Jakarta. “I’m on vacation. I was fired, wasn’t I?” quipped the 30-year-old.

Aan, as he is known, was indeed happy. Last Monday, the panel of judges at the South