Sitting in a courtroom for hours was nothing new for Asmadinata. He had sat in many courtrooms during his time as a legal attorney and then as a judge at the Semarang Corruption Court.

On Tuesday last week, Asmadinata entered the courtroom once again. This time, though, he appeared as a defendant, then a graft convict as the judges read his sentence.

Asmadinata seemed depressed by the trial's end. The panel of judges sentenced him to five years impr