LAST Tuesday, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman, Taufieqqurahman Ruki, and Deputy Chairman, Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas, read the Constitutional Court judgment with great anxiety, concerned that the court would rule that the KPK laws conflicted with the 1945 Constitution. It was not until the final page that both Ruki and Hardjapamekas could breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The court was responding to a motion to test the valid