HE appears in court, haggard, thin and tired. Cirus Sinaga, the senior prosecutor temporarily discharged, sat in the defendant’s chair Monday last week in the Corruption Court at the South Jakarta District Court.

Before him, a few moments later, a five-judge panel led by Albertina Ho, pounded the gavel indicating the start of the first court hearing against the prosecutor known as the big-cases specialist. Cirus is charged with removing and ch