A Risky Business

A number of prosecutors investigating corruption cases have received death threats. How will the government's plan to eliminate corruption stand up to this phenomenon?

January 11, 2005

BENGKULU'S High Prosecutorial Office chief, Rusdi Taher, has spent the past month living at his office headquarters. He has transformed one of the office rooms into his bedroom, complete with bed, wardrobe, books, and other daily living necessities. "For the meantime, I am doing everything in the office," Taher told Tempo reporters last Friday. "Everything—from office matters to daily needs like food, sleep and bathing,&quo

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