THE late August meeting at the vice-presidential secretariat office was supposed to be about the government's low budget uptake. Oddly, however, most of those present were law enforcers, including officials from the National Police, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). A fair number of activists were also in attendance.

Opening the discussion, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, depu