Awaiting Gain

Since their appointment seven months ago, the ad hoc anti-corruption judges are yet to be paid. Every session, they take it in turns to dig deep in their pockets for Rp150,000.

Tempo

February 15, 2005

THREE middle-aged men hurried out of the cramped room on the eighth floor of an apartment owned by the State Secretariat, located in the district of Kemayoran in Central Jakarta. Wearing casual everyday clothes and none-too-flashy sandals, few would have recognized these three as key players in a country busy proclaiming to all and sundry the fight against corruption.

They are judges, engaged daily in the trying of the case against Aceh Governor

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