THE pace of Hatta Ali to a Supreme Court judges chair is not as smooth as he thought previously. The Director-General for Public Justice, who had passed the Judicial Commissions selection, has his step halted at the House of Representatives (DPR). I can only be resigned to my fate now, he said to Tempo, on Thursday last week.

Hatta Ali might have been inordinately disillusioned. On Tuesday last week, the Consultative Board of the DPR decided to po