DESPITE efforts to hide it, the news finally leaked: members of the Internal Affairs Body (BURT) of the House of Representatives (DPR) were going to visit Egypt. The news was heard by reporters who were camped at the DPR in Jakarta, a day before the entourage departed for Cairo, on Friday, December 16. The departure of the 15 members and two staff members of the BURT immediately became a focus of attention.

As was generally known, their departure