LAST Thursday, six convicted corruption felons began their journey to Indonesia's notorious maximum security penitentiary island, Nusakambangan. The prison detainees transferred from a penitentiary bus to a truck and were escorted by a brigade of police cars as they entered Nusakambangan's Sodong pier.

First to exit the bus was Pande Lubis, the former Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) official who was convicted on corruption charge