THE time for evening prayers had just passed. Lights in most of the rooms and offices within a nine-storey building in South Jakarta were being turned off. Only the top floor of this building remained brightly lit. It was here, on the topmost floor of the Graha Anugrah building in Pancoran last week, that former fisheries minister Fadel Muhammad welcomed a string of guestsamong them, his lawyers.

They were asked to explain the legal case that had