Cheers echoed long and loud around the main auditorium of Indonesia's Supreme Court. The day was last Thurs-day. The court hearing was very unusual, although not totally unprecedented. A few years ago it would have been unimaginable.

The case is against that pillar of the corrupt Suharto regime, the Golkar party. Despite its bad name, Golkar still came second in the democratic election of 1999. A group of non-government organizations have brou