EVEN at full blast, the air-conditioner was unable to cool down the heated atmosphere in the meeting room of the Aceh Regional House of Representatives (DPRD), last Wednesday as the DPRD Budget Committee locked heads with Aceh's Regional Government Legal Bureau and Public Relations chief, Hamid Zen, to discuss the draft regional budget (APBD) plan for 2005.

During the meeting DPRD Budget Committee member, Mukhlis Mukhtar, was shocked to dis