EXHAUSTION showed on the face of Tabrani Ismail when TEMPO met him at Salemba Prison in Central Jakarta last Friday. He had just had breakfast and wore a blue T-shirt and dark gray trousers. The 70-year-old former director of operations in Pertamina, was accompanied by one of his children and an in-law.

He was still stubborn about the Balongan case, which put him in jail in the first place. Who was actually involved? Tabrani opened up to