THE conference room on the 15th floor of the Constitutional Court building was tense on Monday last week. A meeting was taking place between Constitutional Court judges and an investigation team over Refly Harun’s opinion article MK Masih Bersih? (Is the Constitutional Court Still Clean?) in the Kompas daily.

The situation eased somewhat when Maria Farida Indrati took the floor. Choked in her speech as a result of holding back her tears, the C