In his ten years as prosecutor, this was the first time Arief Indra faced a court ruling which he considered as strange. The ruling has to do with the acquittal of a defendant, Suwir Laut, in a Rp 1.259 trillion tax evasion case involving palm oil giant Asian Agri Group. "The ruling issued by the judges is unusual," the prosecutor told Tempo last Wednesday.

Two weeks ago, a panel of judges at the Central Jakarta District Court acquitted 50-year-old