HE answered only very briefly the questions put to him by reporters who had blocked his path. “There are many odd things about my sentence,” commented Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto while walking towards the main courtroom of the Central Jakarta District Court.

Last Tuesday the court began to sit in a review of the sentence passed on the former Garuda Indonesia senior pilot in the case of the murder of human rights activist, Munir Said Thalib