AFTER spending half an hour stuck in Jakarta traffic, Minister of Justice & Human Rights, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, arrived at the presidential palace last Thursday, to brief members of the press on the governments recently nominated Constitutional Court judges. I apologize that I am late. I was caught in a traffic jam, said Mahendra at the outset of the briefing, before reading out the list of names.

Mahendra then informed the journalists that the